#MarginsBookselling presents: Alexander Chee in conversation with R.O. Kwon to discuss EXHIBIT. For booksellers only!
About the panelists:
R.O. Kwon’s Exhibit, a novel, will publish in May 2024. Kwon’s nationally bestselling first novel, The Incendiaries, has been translated into seven languages and was named a best book of the year by over forty publications. The Incendiaries was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award. Kwon and Garth Greenwell co-edited the bestselling Kink, a New York Times Notable Book and recipient of the inaugural Joy Award. Kwon’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, New Yorker, and elsewhere. Born in Seoul, Kwon has lived most of her life in the United States.
Alexander Chee is most recently the author of the essay collection How To Write An Autobiographical Novel. A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2021 United Artists Fellow, he is a contributing editor for The New Republic, an editor at large for VQR, the guest editor for Best American Essays 2022. He teaches as a professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College, and is at work on a new novel..
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