Emerging Writers
The Emerging Writers Series showcases graduate students of the NYU Creative Writing Program. Readings feature established writers as special guests.
Amy Hempel is the acclaimed author of four short story collections: Reasons to Live, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, Tumble Home, and The Dog of the Marriage. The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel (2006) gathers all the stories from the four earlier books. Note: This podcast is a recording of an earlier reading, featuring Darin Strauss in conversation with Amy Hempel in spring 2008.
Amy Hempel is the acclaimed author of four short story collections: Reasons to Live, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, Tumble Home, and The Dog of the Marriage. The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel (2006) gathers all the stories from the four earlier books. Note: This podcast is a recording of an earlier reading, featuring Darin Strauss in conversation with Amy Hempel in spring 2008.
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 | Amy Hempel, a master of the short story who has been compared to Grace
Paley, Alice Munro and Ann
Beattie, is a lecturer in creative writing at Princeton University's Lewis
Center for the Arts. Hempel is well-known for her works in fiction, for her
"short, highly imagistic, sparely plotted, stiletto-keen slice of
narrative that in her hands glistens in its sheerness," according to a
Booklist reviewer. "For that she has made short story history."
"The Collected Stories," published in 2006, contains her previous four volumes. In 1985, she published her first collection, "Reason to Live," which won the Commonwealth Club of California Silver Medal. Hempel is also the author of "At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom," (1991) "Tumble Home" (1998) and in 2005, "The Dog of the Marriage." She co-edited the 1999 anthology, "Unleashed: Poems by Writer's Dogs." Hempel has won several prestigious literary awards for her work, including the Hobson Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. "The Collected Stories" was one of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year and a finalist for the PEN-Faulkner Award. Hempel also has received a United States Artists Fellowship and an Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2008 she won the Rea Award for the Short Story. |
