#the pen/robert w. bingham prize

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The cancellation of the 2024 World Voices festival reminded me that I meant to make a post about this last week, when PEN America announced that it could not hold its annual literary award ceremony because so many authors and translators had withdrawn their submissions.  I don’t doubt that there's another post of this sort making the rounds, but since the ceremony was going to be tomorrow, I wanted to celebrate the literary achievements of every Finalist with a demonstrable backbone.

This is a list of writers who acted with integrity by withdrawing their work from the American subset of PEN International, an organization which has served as a bridge between literature and human rights for over a century.  PEN America has largely built its reputation by supporting persecuted writers, and has let down the entire international literary community by failing to take a meaningful public stance against the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. 

The following titles have been withdrawn from consideration at the request of the authors and translators:

PEN/Jean Stein Book Award

To a book-length work of any genre for its originality, merit, and impact, which has broken new ground by reshaping the boundaries of its form and signaling strong potential for lasting influence.

Hangman by Maya Binyam 

Biography of X by Catherine Lacey

Poem Bitten by a Man by Brian Teare

Blackouts by Justin Torres

PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection

To an author whose debut collection of short stories represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise for future work.

The Sorrow of Others by Ada Zhang

PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel

To a debut novel of exceptional literary merit.

Promise by Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang

PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection

To a poet whose distinguished collection of poetry represents a notable and accomplished literary presence.

Couplets by Maggie Millner

suddenly we by Evie Shockley

PEN Translation Prize

From From by Monica Youn

For a book-length translation of poetry from any language into English.

Owlish by Dorothy Tse translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce

Trash by Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny translated from the Spanish by J.D. Pluecker

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925. Morgan Talty

Morgan Talty is the author of the debut novel Fire Exit, available from Tin House.

Talty is a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation. His debut short story collection, Night of the Living Rez, won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kaufman Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the New England Book Award, the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Honor, and was a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, and The Story Prize. His writing has appeared in The Georgia Review, Granta, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, Narrative, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. Talty is an assistant professor of English in Creative Writing and Native American and Contemporary Literature at the University of Maine, Orono, and he is on the faculty at the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing as well as the Institute of American Indian Arts. He lives in Levant, Maine.

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New from Liveright and the winner of the Pen/Robert W. Bingham Prize, Rion Amilcar Scott, The World Doesn’t Require You: Stories. (Listen to the NPR review here.)

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“A month after school opened—when the most coveted boys had paired off with the most coveted girls and, for the majority of us, our affections were going tragically unreturned—Mr. Coles, the new art teacher, decided he hated Ezekiel Marcus.” 

Read an excerpt from Rion Amilcar Scott's Insurrections, a short story collection centering around individuals living in the fictional African-American community of Cross River, Maryland, and a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Stay tuned for the winner’s announcement, which will take place live at the 2017 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony on March 27.

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I’m so excited to share this wonderful opportunity......my work will be used as the cover for an upcoming Clare Beams novel published by @penguinrandomhouse titled #theillnesslesson. Many thanks @clare.beams @emilymahon_covers and #randomhouse - the book will come out February 2020: . . . . Finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, NYPL's Young Lions Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award Clare Beams's THE ILLNESS LESSON, set in 1871, Massachusetts at an all-girls school founded by a discredited transcendentalist and his daughter, Caroline; when the students begin to manifest strange symptoms—rashes, tics, fits, headaches—a sinister physician is called in, forcing Caroline to confront timeless questions about who controls a woman's body and whose voice needs to be heard, to Lee Boudreaux at Doubleday, in a significant deal, at auction, for publication in early 2020. https://www.instagram.com/p/BzMUcOGh2Aj/?igshid=ng8sbmzv9d7q

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INTERVIEW: Mia Alvar

If you do anything this month, let it be Mia Alvar’s In the Country (Vintage, 2015). The book’s a transformative experience and recipient of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. As NPR’s Maureen Corrigan put it, Alvar is “the kind of writer whose imagination seems inexhaustible, and who stirs up an answering desire in her readers for more and more.”

Lucky for us, Mia brought her sparkling brain to Ace Hotel New York, where she was recently a writer-in-residence. As a Dear Reader author, she penned a letter to an imagined audience of hotel guests, to be placed bedside in all guest rooms at a later date. To mark the occasion, we caught up with Mia to talk about the importance of false directions, why everyone should read Carlos Bulosan, and the necessity of fingerless gloves.  

If you could correspond with any fictional character or literary figure via letters, who would it be? ​And why?

MIA ALVAR: A character whose mind I’d live in if I could is Linnet Muir, the semi-autobiographical narrator in several of Mavis Gallant’s short stories. I’d be the insecure and dumb half of this sadly lopsided correspondence, but it would be worth it to soak in all her rich and clever insights on family and art, human nature and politics, travel and life. Inspired as Linnet is by her author, I guess this is my way of wishing I could know Mavis Gallant herself as a girl and young woman, whose fiction I would come to connect with so powerfully but whose early life story—as a child in Montreal and then a journalist on the eve of the Second World War, plotting her escape to Europe to become a full-time writer—remains exotic to me from where I sit in 2018 California.

Do you map out your writing, or do you discover your path as you go? How often does your work go in directions you never expected?

I like to have a map in mind, because writing with no destination is so anxiety-inducing for me I’ve never gotten a word down that way. The map might include milestones I want to hit in the life of a character, or a set of images and ideas I feel are connected but don’t yet know how, or even a general sense of where I want a story to end. These almost always turn out to be false directions: plotlines don’t work, characters I’ve spent pages on turn out to be nonessential, the map goes out the window. Surprises and discoveries are my favorite part, but at least in the beginning, some kind of skeleton gets me going.

Dear Reader tasks you with writing for an imagined audience of strangers. How much do you think about your audience when you write? Have you ever been surprised by who is drawn to your work?

At my desk, I tend to be obsessed on a micro level with just getting a story to work, a task that takes up way too much mind space to allow thoughts of who will read it. Also, when I feel skittish about certain material (like a heinous character, an event from recent history that feels raw, or anything I’m not sure I have the right to write about), it’s helpful in the early stages to pretend that there will never be an audience. But when I’m away from my notebook or laptop and not physically writing, I do have a sense of the effect I’d like my work to have, which is generally to appeal to both head and heart in some way. So my ideal reader is someone who reads from both those places.

Because I spent so many years in classrooms and writing workshops, I honestly forgot the possibility of being read by non-writers, who probably read more than I do but don’t necessarily spend their waking hours thinking about Writing with a capital W. I’m pleasantly surprised when my work lands for someone who is purely a reader first and foremost, who looks to books not to take them apart in an academic or technical way but in the hopes of being entertained or swept along.

What's a book that you wish more people knew about?

For people like me—Philippine-American writers who spent their adolescences searching the shelves for role models—America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan is a huge and not at all obscure book, but outside of that circle I believe it could use more love. It’s a first-person, autobiographical novel about a Filipino migrant worker in California and the Pacific Northwest in the 1930s and 40s. It speeds from farm to cannery to fishery throughout the states where the protagonist seeks work, and it describes in painful detail the racism and inhumane conditions he meets along the way. It’s as moving a coming-of-age story as I’ve found anywhere, not so much from child- to adulthood but from peon to activist and artist: Bulosan became a leader in the movement for migrant farm workers’ rights as well as a prolific reader and writer, mostly after illness shut down his body and made manual labor impossible.

Do you have any rituals, ceremonies or requirements that accompany your writing process?

I’m always cold, so my ritual usually involves bundling up: scarves, hoodies, blankets, socks, and gloves (fingerless, to allow typing) are essential. Otherwise my process consists pretty simply of reading with a notebook handy. I take lots of longhand notes while reading up on a time period or place for research, or reading stories that employ some craft thing (an unusual structure or point of view) that I’m hoping to pull off myself, or reading poetry. As deadlines approach, I switch to the laptop to try and shape my jumbled notes into something that resembles a story.

Dear Reader is a collaboration between Tin House and Ace Hotel New York. Read this interview, along with other wonderful things, at Tin House’s website. 

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#Repost @kayapress ・・・ LAST OF HER NAME author Mimi Lok was selected as a Finalist for the 2020 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Collection! Congratulations, Mimi! Award winners will be announced on March 2! Stay tuned! #mimilok #penamerica #literature #fiction #prize #LastofHerName #kayapress #2020literaryawards https://www.instagram.com/p/B74FGAYpVCR/?igshid=14wvmy0hgft6s

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893. Venita Blackburn

Venita Blackburn is the author of the debut novel Dead in Long Beach, CA, available from MCD Books.  

Blackburn's other books include the story collection Black Jesus and Other Superheroes, which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction; and another collection called How to Wrestle a Girl, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker online, The Paris Review, Pleiades, Bat City Review, and American Short Fiction. She is a faculty member in the creative writing program at Fresno State University and is the founder and president of Live, Write, an organization devoted to offering free creative writing workshops for communities of color. She lives in Fresno, California.

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The Free Black Women’s Library - Spring News

Hey there folks, Happy Friday!! Just wanted to share with you a few fun updates and super cool news items about the library. I am really excited to share with you that the April's edition of The Free Black Women’s Library features award winning author Angela Flournoy, reading from her best selling debut novel The Turner House!

       The Turner House was a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times notable book of the year. This novel was also a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and an NAACP Image Award. Angela is a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree for 2015. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, and she has written for The New York Times, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere.

A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Flournoy received her undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California. She has taught at the University of Iowa, The New School and Columbia University. Flournoy is currently the Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellow at the New York Public Librry Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.         I am over the moon thrilled that this amazing author will be talking about her writing practice and reading excerpts of her gorgeous book for our next pop up session happening -

noon to 5pm Sunday, April 2 Nurture Art Gallery, 56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn

Snacks & refreshments will be served. All are welcome!!         The library is part of an amazing exhibit at Nurture, brought to you by our friends from Culture Push called “The Archive of Affect”, it explores the impact and purpose of archives & storytelling. The exhibit opened to a gorgeous packed house on March 17th and is up until April 16.  

This biblio-installation contains a custom made bookshelf, 120 books written by Black women, 10 Black and white portraits of Black women writer ancestors, and a running slideshow of photos of library pop ups from the past two years. Feel free to stop by the gallery anytime between noon and 6 Wednesday thru Sundays to visit or trade books with the library. All good books written by Black women are happily accepted!!

            Also want to share that I am extremely grateful to the wonderful folks of The Laundromat Project for choosing me to be their Create Change Commissions Artist this year!! WooHoo!!! I am looking for Black women, femmes and gender non-conforming folks to participate in a social art project I am launching entitled Black August: Cocoon, which explores the concepts of safe spaces, embodiment, rituals, pleasure, self care and creative expression. This project involves weekly meet ups for the month of August that feature self defense classes, art making, workshops, yoga/meditation and various body loving practices. Together we will create a zine dedicated to these concepts filled with art, photography, poetry, prose, strategies, information and resources that address the health, safety and liberation of Black women. The zine will be mass produced and sold, all proceeds will be donated to organizations that work for the support and safety of Black women. Much love to The Laundromat Project for their funding and supporting of me in this venture that I have been working on manifesting for a long time!! Please contact me at ixesmama@gmail.com if you are interested in taking part. All meet-ups will take place in Brooklyn on Sundays in August, snacks and refreshments will be served and childcare will be provided. Lastly I wanted to share that three of my absolute favorite folks are coming out with books within the next few weeks and I highly recommend pre-ordering each one. These brilliant creatives have been working hard on bringing these notable texts into the world and I am eagerly looking forward to diving into what their beautiful minds and hearts have to offer. They are Liza Jessie Peterson -  All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island   adrienne marie brown  - Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds Shantrelle Patrice Lewis  - Dandy Lion/ Black Dandy & Street Style ​I literally started tearing up while ordering these books this week a few days ago because not only does it feel good to see my friends thrive and give birth to ideas they have been working on for years, it also feels doubly amazing to support them. I am so hyped to have these babies in my hands!!   Reading books by Black women gives me joy, pleasure, healing, LIFE!! ​I am currently cuddling with the fierce imagination of Kiini Salaam - When The World Wounds ​and the fearless heart of Alexis Pauline Gumbs - Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugivity How about you, what books by Black women are you reading right now?? Send me a message letting me know!! As usual thanks for the support and please continue to connect with me on Facebook, Tumblr, Soundcloud, Crowdrise and Instagram. Please let me know if you would like to be removed from this list!! As usual wishing you Peace, Blessings and Happy Reading!!

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The 2018 PEN Literary Awards finalists are 40 books you want on your to-be-read list

Make room on your to-be-read list. On Thursday, PEN America announced its lists of finalists for the 2018 PEN Literary Awards. 

Each year, the PEN Literary Awards honors great new literature in fiction and a wide array of non-fiction, including sports writing, science writing, essays, and more. Past winners have included Matthew Desmond's deep dive into eviction practices in the U.S. Evicted and Helen Oyeyemi's fable-inspired short story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours (which was also a MashReads favorite).

SEE ALSO: Book service helps black children find empowering stories they can relate to

This year's finalists are just as rich and compelling. Finalists for the 2018 PEN Literary Awards include the late Ursula Le Guin's essay collection No Time To Spare, Carmen Maria Machado's acclaimed short story collection Her Body and Other Parties, which was also a finalist in the 2017 National Book Awards, as well as Ta-Nehisi Coates' essay collection We Were Eight Years In Power. If Coates wins, it will mark his second PEN Literary Award, after he won the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for his book Between The World And Me in 2015.

These breakout books aren't the only titles that make the 2018 PEN Literary Awards exceptional. This year's finalist list also shines a spotlight on exceptional, diverse authors. In addition to the PEN's annual Open Book Award, which honors books written by authors of color, two other categories are composed entirely of minority authors: for the first time ever the finalist list for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction is composed of all women and the finalist list for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award is composed entirely of authors of color.

"It is fitting that our Literary Awards this year spotlight five new women's voices in fiction as well as a dazzling diversity of writers for our flagship Stein prize and in other categories," said PEN America Executive Director Suzanne Nossel in a press release. "PEN America's Literary Awards celebrate some of the greatest fruits of free expression—stories that inspire, spark empathy, and change minds. At a time when the fabric of our discourse is being torn by polarization, technological change, and political upheaval, literature has the power to help us see past impasse and imagine a different future."

Check out the finalist list below, and stay tuned for the winners to be revealed on Feb. 20.

PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction

Sonora

Hannah Lillith Assadi

Black Jesus and Other Superheroes: Stories

Venita Blackburn

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

Carmen Maria Machado

History of Wolves

Emily Fridlund

Sour Heart

Jenny Zhang

PEN Open Book Award

A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

Alexis Okeowo

My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir

Jessica B. Harris

Augustown

Kei Miller

Ordinary Beast: Poems

Nicole Sealey

Lessons on Expulsion: Poems

Erika L. Sánchez

PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

Lindsey Fitzharris

American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World

David Baron

Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life

David Montgomery

No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America

Ron Powers

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Robert Sapolsky

PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography

Richard Nixon: The Life

John Farrell

Grant

Ron Chernow

Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror

Victor Sebestyen

Chester B. Himes: A Biography

Lawrence P. Jackson

You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn

Wendy Lesser

PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing

The Arena: Inside the Tailgating, Ticket-Scalping, Mascot-Racing, Dubiously Funded, and Possibly Haunted Monuments of American Sport

Rafi Kohan

Sting Like a Bee: Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966–1971

Leigh Montville

City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles

Jerald Podair

Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream

Joe Tone

Ali: A Life

Jonathan Eig

PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks & Other Mixed Messages

Carina Chocano

Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London

Lauren Elkin

Alpine Apprentice: A Memoir

Sarah Gorham

No Time To Spare

Ursula K. Le Guin

Because It Is So Beautiful: Unraveling the Mystique of the American West

Robert Reid

PEN Translation Prize

PEN Translation Prize

Emma Reyes

A Horse Walks into a Bar

David Grossman

Out in the Open

Jesús Carrasco

The Impossible Fairy Tale

Han Yujoo

Katalin Street

Magda Szabó

PEN/ Jean Stein Book Award

White Tears

Hari Kunzru

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Whereas

Layli Long Soldier

Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists

Kevin Young

The Changeling

Victor LaValle

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"In her dream, Cobbe was a lion and Baaba was a tree. The lion plucked the tree from the ground where it stood and slammed it back down. The tree stretched its branches in protest, and the lion ripped them off, one by one." 

Read an excerpt from Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing, the story of two separated half-sisters born in eighteenth-century Ghana and a finalist for the 2017 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Stay tuned for the winner’s announcement, which will take place live at the 2017 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony on March 27.

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Fiction Author Clare Beams to Read at Penn State Behrend

Fiction Author Clare Beams to Read at Penn State Behrend

Creative Writers Reading Series returns Oct. 24

Clare Beams’ story collection “We Show What We Have Learned” has made a strong first impression. It was a Kirkus Best Debut of 2016, was longlisted for the Story Prize and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award and the Shirley Jackson Award.

Beams will read stories from that…

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This Philly Writer’s Book Is Being Turned Into an FX Horror Series

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If you haven’t yet read Carmen Maria Machado's debut sci-fi/horror short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, Halloween’s the perfect time.

Carmen Maria Machado | Tom Storm Photography

Since it was published last year, Carmen Maria Machado‘s debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, has been raking in awards and nominations.

It won the Bard Fiction Prize, the John Leonard Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the American Booksellers Association’s Indies Choice Book Awards, among other honors — and it was a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Kirkus Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize … just to name a few, of course. There are plenty more.

Now Machado, who lives in West Philly, will see her collection turned into a TV show. FX has acquired the rights to the 2017 book and will transform it into a horror series. The adaptation is being written and produced by Gina Welch, who’s known for Feud and The Terror.

I can *finally* say something! HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES is officially in development over at @FXNetworks. FX has made some of my favorite shows in the past few years (Atlanta, The Americans) & I'm ridiculously excited to see what comes next. 💥 https://t.co/12smhw8xdP

— Carnage "The Hatchet" Machado (@carmenmmachado) October 15, 2018

In August, Machado won a Best of Philly for best writer on the rise.

We first wrote about her about a year ago, after the collection was published. In a sit-down interview at the University of Pennsylvania, where she’s a writer-in-residence, she told us all about growing up in Allentown, her love of Law and Order, working at Lush, and the subtle and not-so-subtle ways we reinforce sexism and misogyny.

Her Body and Other Parties weaves together eerie sci-fi/horror stories that, at their core, all probe topics like sexism, gender, queerness and sensuality. It feels a bit like reading a modern version of Hans Christian Andersen — if Hans Christian Andersen were an outraged woman and alive today. And really, you should read it, if you haven’t already — Halloween is the perfect time for the spooky book.

No word yet on when the FX series will debut.

Source: https://www.phillymag.com/news/2018/10/18/carmen-maria-machado-fx-show/

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A spooky story about a couple moving to a haunted house... yep, this was a creepy read in vein of Shirley Jackson, the master of that genre. This book was one I couldn’t put down. A good mixture of horror and real life. Brilliant Chicago writer Jac Jemc is the author of My Only Wife, a finalist for the 2013 PEN / Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the winner of the Paula Anderson Book Award. Her compelling work, The Grip of It, tells the unsettling story of a young American couple moving to the country to buy their first home together. It has received critical acclaim and earned her work a place amongst the best literary horror writing. Jac will be performing along with artist Amalia Pica at the Finale Magazine Live Show on February 24th! • en español • Una historia espantosa sobre una pareja mudándose a una casa embrujada ... sí, esta fue una lectura espantosa como las de Shirley Jackson, la mera-mera de ese género. Este libro fue uno que no pude dejar. Una buena mezcla de terror y vida real. La escritor brillante de Chicago, Jac Jemc, es la autora de My Only Wife, finalista del Premio PEN / Robert W. Bingham 2013 de Debut Fiction y ganador del Paula Anderson Book Award. Su convincente trabajo, The Grip of It, cuenta la inquietante historia de una joven pareja estadounidense que se mudó al país para comprar su primera casa juntos. Ha recibido elogios de la crítica y le valió a su trabajo un lugar entre los mejores escritores de terror literario. Jac tocará junto con la artista Amelia Pica en el Show en vivo de Finale Magazine el 24 de febrero! #litluz #MAKElit (at Chicago, Illinois)