Wordstock Festival 2011

Jennifer Egan is the author of A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD, THE KEEP, LOOK AT ME, THE INVISIBLE CIRCUS and the story collection EMERALD CITY. Her stories have been published in the New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, GQ, Zoetrope, All-Story and Ploughshares, and her nonfiction appears frequently in the New York Times Magazine. In 2011, she won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. She...
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John Freeman is editor of GRANTA, the quarterly magazine of the best new writing from around the world. His criticism has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times and the Sydney Morning Herald. Between 2006 and 2008, he served as president of the National Book Critics Circle. His first book, THE TYRANNY OF E-MAIL, was published in 2009.

Elissa Schappell is the author of two books of fiction, most recently,  Blueprints for Building Better Girls (Simon & Schuster) and Use Me (William Morrow), which was a finalist for the PEN Hemingway Award, a New York Times Notable Book and an Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. She is also co-editor, with Jenny Offill of the anthologies, The Friend Who Got Away (Doubleday) and Money Changes Everything (Doubleday). She is a founding editor of Tin House, where she is currently...
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