Join us for an afternoon with Joan Silber. Joan will be in conversation with Kevin Stevens, reading and discussing her work, including her novels Secrets of Happiness and Ideas of Heaven. Joan Silber is a master of the novel, in Nick Hornby’s words:
“Why isn’t there more fiction that’s such a pleasure to read, simply because of its clarity, wisdom, heart, and elegance? … I’d like to say I will never again settle for fiction that’s not as good as this, but I know I will have to.”
All are welcome to attend. Attendance is free but booking is essential.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
JOAN SILBER is the author of ten books of fiction. The most recent is Mercy . Secrets of Happiness was a Washington Post Best Book of the year and a Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction of the Year. Her novel, Improvement , won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She also received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Fools was longlisted for the National Book Award and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, The Size of the World was a finalist for the LA Times Fiction Prize, and Ideas of Heaven was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Story Prize. She is also the author of The Art of Time in Fiction . She lives in New York and taught for many years at Sarah Lawrence College and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
KEVIN STEVENS is the author of ten books, including the best-selling The Cops Are Robbers , which was made into an NBC Movie of the Week starring Ed Asner. His novels include The Rizzoli Contract and Song for Katya , published with Simon & Schuster UK, and Reach the Shining River , published by Betimes Books. His YA novel A Lonely Note was a 2018 IBBY Honour List winner, and his books for children include The Powers , a Dublin UNESCO City of Literature Citywide Reading selection in 2014. Kevin has also written for the Irish Times , the Journal of Music in Ireland , and the Dublin Review of Books . He divides his time between Dublin, Ireland, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.