Conversation with Melanie Finn and Makenna Goodman

Описание: Join us for a virtual conversation with acclaimed author Melanie Finn, about her most recent novel, The Hare (Two Dollar Radio, January 2021). She will be joined in conversation by Makenna Goodman who recently authored “The Shame” (Milkweed Editions, August 2020). REGISTER HERE.

Melanie Finn’s books have been named one of the New York Times Notable Books of 2016, finalist for The Orange Prize (now Women’s Prize for Fiction), the Guardian’s “Not the Booker,” and the Vermont Book Award. The Hare (January 2021), is an astounding new literary thriller from a writer at the height of her storytelling prowess.

“With The Hare, Melanie Finn has written a powerful story of female perseverance, strength, and resilience. This book has rare qualities: beautiful writing while being absolutely unputdownable, and I will be pressing it into the hands of every reader I know.” —Claire Fuller, author of Bitter Orange, Our Endless Numbered Days, and Swimming Lessons

AUTHOR: Melanie Finn, author of Away From You (2004), The Gloaming (2016), The Underneath (2018), and The Hare (2021), was born and raised in Kenya and the US. The Gloaming was a New York Times Notable Book of 2016, a finalist for the Vermont Book Award and The Guardian’s “Not the Booker” Prize. The writer and producer of the DisneyNature wildlife epic “Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos,” she is also the co-founder and director of the Tanzanian-based charity Natron Healthcare. She and her family live on a remote hill in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.
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AUTHOR: Makenna Goodman is the author of The Shame, which was named a Harvard Review Favorite Book of 2020, a White Review Recommended Read, a Refinery29 Best New Book, a Literary Hub Recommended Read, a Bustle Most Anticipated Book, a Boston.com Book Club Pick, and more. Interviews, words, and work have been featured in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Paris Review, Electric Literature, Guernica, Literary Hub, Catapult, The Rumpus, the Adroit Journal, and Commonplace Podcast, and are forthcoming in the Harvard Review, BOMB, the White Review, and the New York Review of Books. Based in Vermont, Goodman is a former editor of books on agriculture and food who writes about, among other things, the intersection of land stewardship and capitalism.

ABOUT “The Shame”
A fable both blistering and surreal, The Shame is a propulsive, funny, and thought-provoking debut about a woman in isolation, whose mind—fueled by capitalism, motherhood, and the search for meaningful art—attempts to betray her.

“A delicious, important moral corrective of a novel.” —SHEILA HETI

“The Shame” is at once a narrative about art, work, capitalism, motherhood, fear, the choices we don’t make and the ones we do, and whether our lives can ever be enough. It is seemingly a perfect novel for our COVID-19 times. The pandemic has affected many working parents (particularly mothers) who have faced hard decisions about work, childcare, and virtual education for their children — sacrifices have inevitably been made. – Boston.com – Book Club pick for October 2020