Art of Fiction: Kathryn Scanlan and Elliott Holt

• Thursday, September 19
• 1:30 PM
• College Street Tent
• MAP
• FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Kathryn Scanlan often makes fiction out of the stuff of fact: recorded conversations, old journals, and whatever other documentary artifacts she can find form the foundation on which she builds her fiction. Novelist and former Yale Review deputy editor Elliott Holt talks to her about the process of turning facts into fictions.

Elliott Holt is the author of the novel You Are One of Them, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard award for a first book. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in publications including The New York Times, Slate, and Virginia Quarterly Review, and she has won a Pushcart Prize as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, and MacDowell.

WEATHER ALERT: In the case of a weather disruption, this event will be moved to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Mezzanine. Check our social media for updates.