Karen Joy Fowler

“There are few perfect debut American novels. Walter Percy’s The Moviegoer and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird come to mind. So does Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping. To this list ought to be added Paul Harding’s devastating first book, Tinkers. . . . Harding has written a masterpiece.” John Freeman, National Public Radio

”At its heart Inukshuk is about family. But Spatz has transfigured this beautifully told, wise story with history and myth, poetry and magic into something rarer, stranger, and altogether amazing. A book that points unerringly true north.” Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club

“Tim Horvath is a fluid, inventive writer who deftly interweaves the palpably real and the pyrotechnically fantastic. At once playful, deeply moving, and sharply funny, Understories satisfies the mind, the heart, and the gut.” Kate Christensen, author of The Astral

Paul Harding is the author of Tinkers, winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts and Iowa Writers’ Workshop, was a drummer for the band Cold Water Flat, and has taught writing at Harvard and the University of Iowa. A 2010 Guggenheim fellow and PEN / Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers Award recipient, Harding lives near Boston with his wife and two sons.

Gregory Spatz is the author of the short fiction collection Wonderful Tricks and the novels Fiddler’s Dream, No One But Us, and Inukshuk. He has also written for the Oxford American and his short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, New England Review, Kenyon Review, Epoch, Shenandoah, Iowa Review, Santa Monica Review and elsewhere. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and recipient of a Washington State Book Award, he teaches at Eastern Washington University in Spokane and plays the fiddle and tours with Mighty Squirrel and in the JUNO-nominated bluegrass band John Reischman and the Jaybirds.

Tim Horvath teaches creative writing at New Hampshire Institute of Art and Boston’s Grub Street writing center. He has also worked part-time as a counselor in a psychiatric hospital, primarily with autistic children and adolescents. He lives in New Hampshire with his wife and daughter.

This event will be hosted by Ted Weesner.

Ted Weesner's work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Cincinnati Review, The Boston Globe, Glamour, Memorious, Gastronomica, and elsewhere, as well as on National Public Radio. His story 'Tuscaloosa' was a Best American Distinguished selection. He has also contributed to Scribner's American Writer and The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. A recipient of the PEN/New England Discovery Award, two Somerville Arts Council grants, an award from the St. Botolph Club, and a residency at the MacDowell Colony, Weesner teaches writing at Tufts, the Museum School, and Grub Street.

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Andrew Sean Greer discusses the story of marriage and other titles.; Karen Joy Fowler discusses wit's end and other titles.; Nathaniel Philbrick reads from Mayflower and other titles.; Elizabeth Strout discusses amy and isabelle and other titles.; Manil Suri discusses the age of shiva.

Literary Sojourn is an annual gathering of authors and book lovers set in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. Each year, 500 readers from all over the country gather in Steamboat Springs to meet the creators of their favorite books and to celebrate, first and foremost, the joy and inspiration of books and reading. (howelson)… (more)