Claire Messud’s new novel, The Woman Upstairs, was just published by Random House. She is the author of three other novels, The Emperor’s Children, The Last Life and When the World Was Steady, and a book of novellas, The Hunters. In 2010-2011, Messud was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. She now… Read more »
Paul Brody is a composer, writer, and trumpeter who has worked with John Zorn, David Marton, Blixa Bargeld, Wim Wenders, Barry White, and Volker Ludwig. He has written and produced shows for WDR and SWR, performed in the Schaubuehne and Burg Theater, and has solo CDs on Tzadik and Enja Records. His children’s CDs, on… Read more »
Maxwell Flaum is a writer, painter and director. He is also a co-founder of Shakespeare im Park Berlin.
Alicia Oltuski’s book, Precious Objects, was named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Her one-act plays were included in Ensemble Studio Theatre’s festival, and other work of hers has appeared on NPR’s Berlin Stories, in W Magazine, The Faster Times, and other publications. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from… Read more »
Joshua Weiner’s new book of poems is “The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish,” published this spring by the University of Chicago Press. His poems have appeared in The New Republic, New York Review of Books, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the 2012 Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship. Visit… Read more »
Joanna Hershon’s new novel, A Dual Inheritance, is just out from Random House. The novel is also available as an audiobook, read aloud by Hershon herself. Visit her Pinterest board about the book. She is the author of three other novels: Swimming, The Outside of August and The German Bride. Her writing has been… Read more »
Roland Satterwhite was born in Canada. When he was 5 his family smuggled their cat across the border and moved to Seattle, where he started learning the violin. After college, he moved to New York city to work as a biologist only to fall hopelessly in love with Cuban music which changed the course of his… Read more »
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