Please join us for a conversation between novelist, critic and professor Lincoln Michel and Rutgers professor Jeffrey Lawrence about contemporary literature, publishing, and the current state of public writing in the United States. The conversation will be moderated by Lena Crown, an essayist, editor, and current Rutgers doctoral student.
To attend, please RSVP here. Light refreshments will be provided.
Optional readings, all available in PDF form in this Google folder, include Jeffrey Lawrences essay The Democrat Intellectual Complex, Lincoln Michels essays Turning Off the TV in Your Mind and On the Many Different Engines That Power a Short Story, and Michels short story A Feeling Artist.
Lincoln Michel's most recent novel is Metallic Realms (Atria Books). He is also the author of the story collection Upright Beasts (Coffee House Press) and the novel The Body Scout (Orbit), which was named one of the ten best SFF books of 2021 by The New York Times and one of the fifty best science fiction books of all time by Esquire. His fiction appears in The Paris Review, Granta, McSweeney's, The Baffler, and Lightspeed. His criticism appears in The New York Times, BOMB, The Guardian, and on his weekly literary newsletter Counter Craft.
Jeffrey Lawrence is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers-New Brunswick. He is the author of Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño ( 2018) and the translator of Andrés Neumans How to Travel Without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America (2016) and Sergio Chejfecs Forgotten Manuscript (2023). His work has appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Public Books, Lit Hub, Bomb, and Los Angeles Review of Books, and his writing can also be found at his Substack Avenues of the Americas. His Spanish-language debut novel, El americano, appeared with Chatos Inhumanos press in 2024.