New books by Bora Chung, Rafael Frumkin and Laird Hunt explore the chaotic intricacies of being alive. Credit...John Gall Supported by By Alexandra Kleeman Alexandra Kleeman is a novelist and ...
Laird Hunt powerfully channeled the melancholy sweetness of Gustave Flaubert’s “A Simple Heart” in his 2021 novel, “Zorrie,” set in the farmland of Clinton County, Ind., where the author grew up. It ...
A little more than a century ago, Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio” introduced a new kind of American novel: one composed of short stories that share a setting and that elevate, one by one, ...
Laird Hunt's "Zorrie" is about the kind of life we may not often read in novels. Zorrie is elderly. She's begun to tire after a life of hard work in Indiana and Illinois during the depression and then ...
Matthew Guterl, a professor of Africana studies and American studies, and Laird Hunt, a professor of literary arts, were among the 188 individuals selected from around 3,000 applicants for a 2024 ...
Hunt's second novel attempts an update of various Faulknerian conceits: spooky rurality; the eros, time displacements and explosive violence of feeblemindedness; omniscient prose that tries to be ...
Scott Simon speaks to novelist Laird Hunt about his latest book, "Zorrie." Laird Hunt proves life centers on the seemingly-mundane through the life of 'Zorrie' SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Laird Hunt's "Zorrie" ...
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