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Inside the Writers House" invites you into the homes, offices, and writing rooms of acclaimed authors, providing an inside eye on their working life and a level of intimacy often lacking in more formal settings. An obvious reference to the televised Actor's Studio seminar, "Writers House" interviews are likewise craft focused, but strive for an earthy spontaneity unencumbered by prepared queries and index card cues. Visits are conversational and plastic, largely molded by (and dependent on) audience questions. In addition to the conversation, most visits include short readings, writing prompts, show-and-tell sessions, and house/apt tours. Chances are you'll meet their pets (and look inside their refrigerators).

In the last eight years, students have visited with almost 200 authors in dozens of different cities. Internationally, they've talked with Eoin Colfer in Dublin, Mariana Enriquez in Buenos Aires, Yewande Omotoso in Johannesburg, Garth Greenwell in Sofia, Karin Tidbeck in Stockholm, Kevin Barry in Sligo, and Daisy Johnson in Oxford. Stateside, they've talked with Maurice Ruffin in New Orleans, Karen Russell in Portland, Chigozie Obioma in Lincoln, Tommy Orange in Oakland, Susan Orlean in Los Angeles, Tom Perrotta in Belmont, Jeff VanderMeer in Tallahassee, and Eowyn Ivey in Palmer, Alaska (as well as more local, across-the-river luminaries like Jennifer Egan, Victor LaValle, Lev Grossman, and André Aciman).

Inside the Writers House: Lev Grossman

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Tuesday, October 8, 2024
5:40 PM - 6:40 PM
On Zoom
Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Join us at 5:40 PM, Tues. Oct 8 for the next installment of Inside the Writers House, when Writers House instructor Alex Dawson talks with acclaimed fantasy author Lev Grossman (The Bright Sword), joining us via Zoom from Australia. Named a "Best Summer Read" by virtually every magazine, newspaper, and

Inside the Writers House: Sophie White

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Friday, October 4, 2024
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
TBD
Event Type: Inside The Writers House
In the mood for a ghost story? Ireland has as many ghosts as it does sheep. Everybody knows someone who has seen one, even if they haven't seen one themselves. Join us at 10:30 AM, Fri. Oct 4 (2nd Fl, RU B&N) for the LIVE! kickoff of the Fall 2024 sequence

Inside the Writers House: Jonathan Maberry

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Tuesday, October 31, 2023
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
On Zoom
Event Type: Inside The Writers House

Don't miss part II of Inside the Writers (Haunted) House: NIghtmare Edition, with five time Bram Stoker Award winner Jonathan Maberry. We will discuss zombies,  The X-Files, and his Netflix show V-Wars. Zoom Link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/98231287839?pwd=WmhlblJSWnlva0lWNVZGL3dwZDlqUT09 PASS CODE: IWH New York Times best-selling author, five-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, anthology editor, and  comic book writer, JONATHAN MABERRY, was recently named one of Today’s Top

Inside the Writers House: Lauren Beukes

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Monday, October 30, 2023
10:20 AM - 11:20 AM
On Zoom
Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Please join us 10:20 AM Monday, Oct 30 for the next installment of Inside the Writers (Haunted) House: Nightmare Edition, when Writers House instructor Alex Dawson talks with bestselling horror author Lauren Beukes about her brand new novel Bridge and her AppleTV series The Shining Girls (starring Elisabeth Moss). Zoom

Inside the Writers House: Fall Launch 2023, Live event

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Friday, September 29, 2023
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Rutgers Barnes and Nobles, Second Floor
Event Type: Inside The Writers House
      Ireland is a magic realist country, rich in standing stones and megalithic forts, ancient abbeys and crumbling churches. Everybody knows someone who has seen a faerie or a ghost, even if they haven't seen one themselves. Join us at 3:30 PM, Fri. Sept 29 or the LIVE!

Inside the Writers House: Mariana Enriquez

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Wednesday, May 3, 2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Virtual
Event Type: Inside The Writers House

Mariana Enriquez is a writer and journalist based in Buenos Aires. She is the author of the novel Our Share of Night and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed,which was a finalist for the International Booker Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative

Inside the Writers House: John Wray

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Friday, April 28, 2023
3:40 PM - 4:40 PM
Virtual
Event Type: Inside The Writers House

John Wray is the author of Godsend, The Lost Time Accidents, Lowboy, Canaan's Tongue, and The Right Hand of Sleep. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, a Cullman Fellowship from the New York Public Library, and a Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellowship from the American Academy

Inside the Writers House: Kieron Gillen

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Friday, April 21, 2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Virtual
Event Type: Inside The Writers House

Kieron Gillen first came to attention as a comic creator with his 2006’s Phonogram, with Jamie McKelvie. Jamie and he formed into a gestalt monster that rampaged against the next fifteen years of comics, culminating with critical and smash hit the Wicked + the Divine. When not with Jamie, he

Inside the Writers House: Jeff VanderMeer

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Friday, April 14, 2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Virtual
Event Type: Inside The Writers House

Jeff VanderMeer’s NYT-bestselling Southern Reach trilogy has been translated into over 35 languages. The first novel, Annihilation, won the Nebula Award and Shirley Jackson Award, and was made into a movie by Paramount in 2018. Recent works include Hummingbird Salamander and A Peculiar Peril, in addition to Theo Ellsworth’s graphic

Inside the Writers House: Jade Song

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Tuesday, April 11, 2023
5:40 PM - 6:40 PM
Virtual
Event Type: Inside The Writers House

Jade Song (she/they) is a writer, art director, and artist in New York City. Their debut novel CHLORINE is forthcoming in March 2023 from William Morrow; other writing is published in Teen Vogue, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. Their art direction work has been awarded by and featured in Campaign US,

Inside the Writers House: Gina Chung

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Friday, April 7, 2023
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual
Event Type: Inside The Writers House

Gina Chung is a Korean American writer. Born in Queens and raised in New Jersey, she is now based in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of SEA CHANGE (Vintage, March 28, 2023; out in the Commonwealth on April 13, 2023 and in the UK on August 10, 2023

Inside the Writers House: Erica Berry

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Wednesday, April 5, 2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Virtual
Event Type: Inside The Writers House

Erica Berry’s nonfiction debut, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear, was published in February 2023 by Flatiron/Macmillan (US+Canada), and Canongate (UK+Commonwealth) in March 2023. Her essays and journalism appear in Outside, Catapult, Wired, The Yale Review, The Guardian, Literary Hub, Gulf Coast, The New York Times

Inside the Writers House: Gerardo Sámano Córdova

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Monday, March 27, 2023
3:50 PM - 4:50 PM
Virtual
Event Type: Inside The Writers House

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Inside the Writers House: Allegra Hyde

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Friday, March 24, 2023
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual
Event Type: Inside The Writers House

Allegra Hyde is the author of ELEUTHERIA, which was named a "Best Book of 2022" by The New Yorker. She is also the author of the story collection, OF THIS NEW WORLD, which won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. Her second story collection, THE LAST CATASTROPHE, will be published

Inside the Writers House: David Grann

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Wednesday, March 22, 2023
10:20 AM - 11:20 AM
Virtual
Event Type: Inside The Writers House

 David Grann is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z. Killers of the Flower Moon was a finalist for the National Book Award and won an Edgar Allan Poe Award. He is also the author of The White Darkness and the collection The Devil and Sherlock Holmes.

Inside the Writers House: Matt Ruff

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Tuesday, March 7, 2023
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual
Event Type: Inside The Writers House

Matt Ruff was born in New York City in 1965. He decided he wanted to be a fiction writer when he was five years old and spent his childhood and adolescence learning how to tell stories. At Cornell University he wrote what would become his first published novel, Fool on the

Inside the Writers House: Jennifer Egan

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Friday, December 9, 2022
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Online
Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Spend quality time with one of the most well-read and critically acclaimed writers of our time. Jennifer Egan’s 2017 novel, Manhattan Beach, has been awarded the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Egan was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. She is also the author of

Inside the Writers House: Kevin Wilson

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Friday, December 9, 2022
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Online
Event Type: Inside The Writers House
You are the luckiest person alive to be able to get the inside scoop on writing from Kevin Wilson. Wilson is the author of two collections, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (Ecco/Harper Perennial, 2009), which received an Alex Award from the American Library Association and the Shirley Jackson

Inside the Writers House: Morgan Talty

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Friday, December 2, 2022
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Online
Event Type: Inside The Writers House
This is your opportunity to learn from one of the greatest contemporary writers of our time. Morgan Talty is a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation where he grew up. He is the author of the story collection Night of the Living Rez from Tin House Books, and his work

Inside the Writers House: Talia L. Kolluri

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Friday, December 2, 2022
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Online
Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Talia Lakshmi Kolluri is a mixed South Asian American writer from Northern California. Her debut collection of short stories, What We Fed to the Manticore (Tin House 2022), is available now wherever books are sold. Her short fiction has been published in the minnesota review, Ecotone, Southern Humanities Review, The