Dorothy Presents: Nell Zink in Conversation with Jonathan Franzen

DOROTHY, a publishing project celebrates its fifth year with an event to launch the literary debut of the exceptional Nell Zink, who will read from from her novel The Wallcreeper. Jonathan Franzen, who has described Zink as a writer of "extraordinary talent and range," will join us to introduce and interview Zink. Wine will be served. “Who is Nell Zink? She claims to be an expatraite living in northeast Germany. Maybe she is; maybe she isn’t. I don’t know. I do know that this first novel arrives with a voice that is fully formed: mature, hilarious, terrifyingly intelligent, and wicked. The novel is about a bird-loving American couple that moves to Europe and becomes, basically, eco-terrorists. This is strange, and interesting, but in between is some writing about marriage, love, fidelity, Europe, and saving the earth that is as funny and as grown-up as anything I’ve read in years. And there are some jokes in here that a young Don DeLillo would kill to have written. I hope he doesn’t kill Nell Zink.”—Keith Gessen NELL ZINK was born in 1964 in southern California and grew up in rural Virginia. She attended Stuart Hall School and the College of William and Mary, where she majored in philosophy, and later received a doctorate in Media Studies from the University of Tübingen, Germany. She lives in Bad Belzig, south of Berlin. This is her first book. 

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ISBN: 9780989760713
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Published: Dorothy, a publishing project - October 1st, 2014