Humanities on the Hill: Eric Puchner & Susan Choi

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Award-winning authors and Johns Hopkins faculty members Eric Puchner and Susan Choi will be in conversation about their most recent and highly acclaimed works, Dream State and Flashlight, as part of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute's Humanities on the Hill series.

Eric Puchner's new novel, Dream State, is an Oprah's Book Club pick and a New York Times bestseller and will be adapted for TV by A24. He is the author of three other books: the novel Model Home, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the story collections Last Day on Earth and Music Through the Floor. His short stories and personal essays have appeared in GQ, Granta, McSweeney's, The Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. He has received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is an associate professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Baltimore with his wife, the novelist Katharine Noel, and their two children.

Susan Choi's latest novel is Flashlight, which is currently long-listed for the Booker Prize. She is also the author of Trust Exercise, which received the National Book Award for fiction, and the novels The Foreign Student, American Woman, A Person of Interest, and My Education. She is a recipient of the Asian American Literary Award for fiction, the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award, a Lambda Literary award, the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.