RC Creative Writing lecturer Andrew Weinstein is closing out his 2016 tour tour with a reading from his newly released collection, Children of the New World (Picador 2016) at Nicola’s Books (2513 Jackson Ave.) in Ann Arbor on Wednesday, November 30, at 7 pm.
Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made primitive by disaster, which they must work to rebuild as we once did millennia ago.
Weinstein is also the director of The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. His fiction and translations have appeared in Cream City Review, Notre-Dame Review, Pleiades, PRISM International, Rio Grande Review, Salamander, Sou’Wester, World Literature Today, and other journals. His fiction was awarded the Lamar York Prize and the Gail Crump Prize, has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and appears in the anthologies 2013 New Stories from the Midwest, Bully Anthology, 2014 Lascaux Prize Stories, and 2015 Lascaux Prize Stories. He is a professor of Creative Writing at Siena Heights University and a lecturer at U-M. A graduate of Indiana University’s MFA program and Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, he has been working as a creative writing teacher and freelance editor for the past twelve years and leads fiction workshops in the United States and Europe.
