Celeste Ng & Joan Wickersham: On Writing the Family Tragedy

On Saturday, March 14, 2015, Papercuts J.P. hosted local authors Celeste Ng and Joan Wickersham in a conversation on writing the family tragedy. Celeste Ng's fiction and essays have appeared in OneStory , TriQuarterly , Bellevue Literary Review , and more. She is a recipient of the Pushcart Prize, and her debut novel, Everything I Never Told You , was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Noteble Book of 2014, and was named Amazon's Best Book of 2014. Joan Wickersham's fiction and essays have appeared in OneStory , Ploughshares , Agni , T he Best American Short Stories , The Best American Nonrequired Reading , and more. She has received the Ploughshares Cohen Award for Best Short Story, and her newest book of fiction, The News From Spain , was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR , San Francisco Chronicle , and Kirkus Reviews. Her memoir The Suicide Index , was a 2008 National Book Award Finalist. Papercuts J.P. is an indepdent bookstore located at 5 Green Street in Boston.

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Celeste Ng & Joan Wickersham: On Writing the Family Tragedy is an episode from Papercuts J.P. Audio Broadcast by Katie Eelman.

This episode is 38:54 long.

This episode was published on Mar 25, 2015.

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