Art of the Short Story: 2019 National Book Festival
Brendan Mathews discussed This Is Not a Love Song and Lydia Millet discussed Fight No More: Stories at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
- Brendan Matthews is the author of The World of Tomorrow, which was long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and named an Indie Next Great Read and an Editors' Choice by The New York Times Book Review. His debut story collection is This Is Not a Love Song. A Fulbright Scholar to Ireland, his fiction has twice appeared in The Best American Short Stories and in Glimmer Train, Virginia Quarterly Review, Salon, Cincinnati Review and other publications in the United States and United Kingdom. Matthews has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Sewanee Writers Conference. He teaches at Bard College at Simon???s Rock in Massachusetts.
- Lydia Millet is the PEN Award-winning author of 11 works of literary fiction, including Sweet Lamb of Heaven and Magnificence, which have been New York Times Notable Books and Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists. Millet is known for her dark humor, idiosyncratic characters and language, and strong interest in the relationship between humans and other animals. Her story collection Love in Infant Monkeys was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her new book is Fight No More: Stories.