Writers Jonathan Lethem and Catherine Lacey read from their work and discuss the role of fiction in an age of information—and misinformation—with Yale Review editor Meghan O’Rourke.
Location
Humanities Quadrangle, Room L02/L90
320 York St.
About the Speakers
Catherine Lacey is the author of the novels Biography of X, Pew, Nobody Is Ever Missing, and The Answers, as well as the story collection Certain American States. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, a Whiting Award, and an O. Henry Prize.
Jonathan Lethem is the author of more than a dozen books, including Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, and Cellophane Bricks, his latest. He is the winner of a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” and serves as the Roy E. Disney Chair in Creative Writing at Pomona College.
The Yale Review Festival is co-sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, the 320 York Fund, Yale English Department and Creative Writing, and the Whitney Humanities Center.
