BOOKISH: Amy Shearn hosts Tracy O’Neill – a Culture interest event taking place on 2016-05-24 18:30:00 in United States
Park Slope Library
In this interview series, Brooklyn novelist Amy Shearn asks the top writers of today about their work, writing, reading, and where they get their tote bags. In the third installment of Bookish's Spring season, Amy hosts the talented debut novelist, Tracy O'Neill in a discussion of her work, The Hopeful, in which a figure skating prodigy is one of a few "hopefuls" racing against nature's clock to compete in the Olympics. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Tracy O'Neill is the author of The Hopeful, for which she was named a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and long-listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan Prize. In 2012, she was awarded the Center for Fiction's Emerging Writers Fellowship. Her fiction has appeared in Granta, LitHub, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Literarian and Guernica. She has published nonfiction online in The Atlantic, New Yorker, Bookforum, and Rolling Stone; in Grantland; and in the San Francisco Chronicle. She currently teaches at the City College of New York and is pursuing a PhD at Columbia University.
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Curated and hosted by novelist Amy Shearn. Books will be sold at this event.
Amy Shearn is the author of the novels The Mermaid of Brooklyn andHow Far Is The Ocean From Here. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Real Simple, Oprah.com, and elsewhere. She created and hosted the beloved Lit at Lark reading series in Kensington, Brooklyn, where she lives with her family.
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