The Distinguished Writers Series at Hunter College welcomes a reading by Creative Writing professor and award-winning author, Téa Obreht. Téa Obreht’s debut novel, The Tiger’s Wife, won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction, and was a 2011 National Book Award finalist and an international bestseller. Her second novel, Inland, also received widespread critical acclaim, including […]
Hunter College MFA Distinguished Lecturer and New York Times-bestselling author and Orange Prize winner, Tea Obreht, will read from Inland, her critically-acclaimed bestseller, which Barack Obama praised as one of his favorite books of 2019, and which Entertainment Weekly calls “a bracingly epic and imaginatively mythic journey across the American West.” In the lawless, drought-ridden […]
The Distinguished Writers Series at Hunter College welcomes Bruce Smith. Bruce Smith is the author of six volumes of poetry including The Other Lover -- which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize -- and Devotions, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book […]
The Distinguished Writers Series at Hunter College invites you to join us online as Alex Halberstadt discusses his latest work, Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning. This event will be held online via Zoom. Zoom link will be provided upon RSVP Please download the Zoom app before joining the event […]
Join Hunter College Distinguished Writer in Residence, Mychal Denzel Smith, and author Valeria Luiselli for a lunchtime discussion of Smith’s new book, Stakes Is High. How have the events of the past decade, in particular the election of Donald Trump, forced us to reckon with who we are as a country and who we want […]
The Distinguished Writers Series at Hunter College invites you to join us online as Hernan Diaz discusses his novel In the Distance. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Hernan Diaz has published stories and essays in Cabinet, The New York Times, The Kenyon Review, Playboy, Granta, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. His first […]
In the modern world, everything is connected, including how we kill. Join us for a thrilling evening as author and Hunter alumnus Phil Klay MFA‘11, discusses his debut novel Missionaries with author Matt Gallagher. In Missionaries, Klay, also an Iraq War veteran, examines the globalization of violence through the interlocking stories of four characters and […]
The Distinguished Writers Series at Hunter College invites you to join us online as Major Jackson discusses his book of poetry, The Absurd Man. Major Jackson is the author of five books of poetry, including The Absurd Man (2020), Roll Deep (2015), Holding Company (2010), Hoops (2006) and Leaving Saturn (2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. His […]
The Distinguished Writers Series at Hunter College invites you to join us online as Claudia Rankine discusses her poetry collection Just Us. Recipient of the 2016 MacArthur Fellowship, Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don't Let Me Be Lonely; two plays including Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue; […]
The Distinguished Writers Series at Hunter College invites you to join us online as ZZ Packer discusses her short stories collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. ZZ Packer's collection of short stories Drinking Coffee Elsewhere won the Commonwealth First Fiction Award, an ALEX Award and was a National Book Award 5 under 35 winner. It became a finalist for […]
