Please join us Monday, April 8th, 2013, 5:00pm-6:30pm Vita Nova Lecture Hall (Room 100), Scripps College In featuring A Reading by Two New York Times Bestselling Novelists: Marisa Silver and Rachel Kushner arisa Silver is the author, most recently, of the novel, Mary Coin, a New York Times Bestseller, published in 2013 by M Blue Rider Press/Penguin. Silver made her fiction debut in The New Yorker when she was featured in that magazine's first “Debut Fiction” issue. Her collection of short stories, Babe in Paradise was published by W.W. Norton in 2001. That collection was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. In 2005, W.W. Norton published her novel, No Direction Home. Her novel, The God of War, was published in 2008 by Simon . and Schuster and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction. Her second collection of stories, Alone With You, was published by Simon and Schuster in April, 2010. Winner of the O. Henry Prize, her fiction has been included in The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, as well as other anthologies. Marisa Silver will read from her most recent work, MARY COIN, a novel inspired by Dorothea Lange's iconic depression era photograph, Migrant Mother. Rachel Kushner is the author of the novels The Flamethrowers and Telex from Cuba, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the California Book Award, and a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book. Her fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The Paris Review, The Believer, Artforum, Bookforum, Fence, Bomb, and Grand Street. She lives in Los Angeles. Meghan O’Rourke, the Mary Routt Chair and author of The Long Goodbye, will moderate the discussion. “Life, gazed at with exemplary intensity “Marisa Silver’s transfixing new over hundreds of pages and thousands of novel...deftly sprinkles historical fact sentences precision-etched with detail— into her fictional narrative...a raw and that’s what The Flamethrowers feels like... The Flamethrowers is a political novel, a emotional tale that leaves readers with feminist novel, a sexy novel, and a kind of a lingering question: Do photographs thriller…Virtually every page contains a illuminate or blur the truth?” —O, The Oprah Magazine paragraph that merits—and rewards— rereading." –Tom Bissell, Harper’s This event is sponsored by the Scripps College Writing Program and the Mary Routt Chair of Writing. For more information please contact [email protected] or Kimberly Drake at [email protected]. .