From the Fiction Section
Exploring New York City Through Fiction Literature
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Panelists (clockwise from top left), Nicole Rudick, John Reed, Ernesto Quiñonez, and Maisy Card.photo 2 of 2
About the Speakers
Maisy Card, Novelist and Fiction Editor, The Brooklyn Rail
Maisy Card is the author of the novel These Ghosts Are Family, which won an American Book Award, the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize in fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review Daily, AGNI, The New York Times, Guernica, and other publications. Maisy was born in Portmore, Jamaica but was raised in Queens, NY. She currently works as a librarian, an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Writing at Columbia University, and a fiction editor for The Brooklyn Rail.
Ernesto Quiñonez, Novelist and Associate Professor of the Department of English at Cornell University
The New York Times claimed Ernesto Quiñonez’s debut novel, Bodega Dreams (Random House, 2000), a “New Immigrant Classic”, which has since gone on to become a landmark in contemporary literature and is required reading in many high schools and colleges around the country. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, Newsweek, El Pais, Latina Magazine and elsewhere. He was raised in Spanish Harlem and is a product of public education from kindergarten to the City College of New York. He is a Sundance Writer’s Lab fellow and last appeared in the “Blackout” episode of PBS American Experience.
John Reed, Novelist and Director of Creative Writing Program at the New School
Author of A Still Small Voice (Delacorte), The Whole (Simon & Schuster / MTV Books), the SPD bestseller, Snowball’s Chance (Roof / Melville House); All The World’s A Grave: A New Play By William Shakespeare (Penguin / Plume); Tales of Woe (MTV Press); Free Boat: Collected Lies and Love Poems (C&R Press); and A Drama In Time: The New School Century (Profile); The Family Dolls: A Manson Paper + Play Book (Outpost19); MFA in Creative Writing, Columbia University (fellowship); published in (selected) ElectricLit, the Brooklyn Rail, Tin House, Paper Magazine, Artforum, Hyperallergic, Bomb Magazine, Art in America, the Los Angeles Times, the Believer, the Rumpus, Observer, the PEN Poetry Series, the Daily Beast, Gawker, Slate, the Paris Review, the Times Literary Supplement, the Wall Street Journal, Vice, The New York Times, Harpers, Rolling Stone; anthologized in (selected) Best American Essays (Houghton Mifflin); works translated and performed worldwide; films distinguished at festivals internationally; two-term board member of the National Book Critics Circle.
Nicole Rudick, Writer and Editor
Nicole Rudick (she/her) is a writer and editor. Her most recent books include Joanna Russ: Novels and Stories (Library of America), Aidan Koch’s Spiral and Other Stories (NYRC), and What Is Now Known Was Once Only Imagined: An (Auto)biography of Niki de Saint Phalle (Siglio). She has written on books and art for The New York Review of Books, the New York Times, Poetry Foundation, Artforum, Apollo, and elsewhere. She was managing editor of The Paris Review for nearly a decade and edited two issues of the magazine.
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