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Literati is thrilled to be the bookseller for the Zell Visiting Writers Series at the University of Michigan. More information about the Helen Zell Writers’ Program, including a full calendar of visiting writers, can be found here. The September 15th installment of ZVWS will feature John Freeman and Valeria Luiselli.
John Freeman was the editor of Granta until 2013. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Tales of Two Cities: The Best of Times and Worst of Times in Today’s New York. He is an executive editor at the Literary Hub, founder of the annual literary journal Freeman’s, and teaches at the New School. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and the Paris Review.
Valeria Luiselli was born Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. She is the author of two novels, The Story of My Teeth and Faces in the Crowd, as well as the essay collection Sidewalks. Her work has been translated into many languages and has appeared in publications including the New York Times, the New Yorker, Granta, and McSweeney’s. In 2014, Faces in the Crowd was the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award.
