Fiction: Daniel Alarcon and Francisco Goldman

Daniel Alarcón’s fiction and nonfiction have been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Virginia Quarterly Review, Salon, Eyeshot and elsewhere, and anthologized in Best American Non-Required Reading 2004 and 2005. He is Associate Editor of Etiqueta Negra, an award-winning monthly magazine based in his native Lima, Peru. A former Fulbright Scholar to Peru and the recipient of a Whiting Award for 2004, he lives in Oakland, California, where he is the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College. His story collection, War by Candlelight, was a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award. He reads from his novel Lost City Radio.

"Daniel Alarcon writes about subterfuge, lies, and the arbitrary recreation of history with a masterful clarity. By accepting the premise that war is senseless, he goes on to make sense of the lives that are destroyed in its wake. Lost City Radio is both ambitious and resonant."Ann Patchett

Francisco Goldman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a Guatemalan mother and Jewish-American father. His first novel, The Long Night of White Chickens (1992), won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and his second, The Ordinary Seaman (1997), was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was short-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He is the author of the novel The Divine Husband. He reads from new work -

Praise for The Divine Husband "[A] dynamically episodic saga written in a more ebullient, mischievous, and sensual mode than [his previous novels] but without belying complexity or tragedy....[Goldman] conjures the very spirit of humankind in all its perfidy and splendor." Booklist

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SuzanneDottino

Fiction Curator

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