Please join us with Writers' Workshop alum Rafael Frumkin, who will read from and talk about his new book, Confidence.  "Confidence is an exuberant assault on contemporary wellness culture, a tale of con-men so talented they con even themselves. But it's also a very human story about the blind spots we all have, how our need for love and connection can sometimes lead us down all the wrong paths. A delightful, irreverent, and poignant novel."-- Nathan Hill

Frumkin is a graduate of the Iowa...

Man Booker Prizewinning author of The Luminaries and Writers’ Workshop graduate Eleanor Catton will read from and talk about her new book, Birnam Wood. “Mysterious and marvelously unpredictable, Birnam Wood had me reading the way I used to as a kid—curiously, desperately, and as if it was the whole world. Eleanor Catton connects to the natural and unnatural ways in which we try to control our environments, our impulses, and one another. A spectacular novel, conjured by a virtuoso.”
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Writers' Workshop graduate Nic Brown will read from Bang Bang Crash: A Memoir. "Most rock memoirs are about excess. But Nic Brown's Bang Bang Crash is about ambivalence: it asks, What happens if you get everything you ever wanted, and discover that you should have wanted something else? What should you do next? Well, in Nic Brown's case, he put down his drumsticks and wrote this charming, funny, rueful, wise book about the rock and roll life, and the life after the rock and roll life. An...

The Writers' Workshop presents an artist's talk and Q&A with Layli Long Soldier.

Layli Long Soldier is the author of the chapbook Chromosomory (2010) and the full-length collection Whereas (2017), which won the National Book Critics Circle award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has been a contributing editor to Drunken Boat and poetry editor at Kore Press. In 2012, her participatory installation, Whereas We Respond, was featured on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Long Soldier won...