The Art of Fiction

• Thursday, September 18
• 5:30 PM
• Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Mezzanine (Audubon Side)
• 121 Wall Street
• MAP
• FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Join two celebrated voices in contemporary fiction, 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize recipients Anne Enright and Sigrid Nunez, for an illuminating conversation on the craft of fiction. Both acclaimed for their distinctive prose and nuanced insights into the human condition, Enright and Nunez will delve into the challenges and triumphs of novel writing, character development, narrative structure, and the very essence of storytelling. The discussion will be moderated by acclaimed literary critic and writer, Merve Emre. This promises to be an essential dialogue for writers and readers alike.

Merve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and the Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. Her books include Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America, The Personality Brokers (selected as one of the best books of 2018 by the New York Times, The Economist, NPR, and The Spectator), The Ferrante Letters (winner of the 2021 PROSE award for literature), and The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway. She has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize, the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism, and the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker.