News and Coming Events
January 19, 2012
Sigrid Nunez will teach a week-long fiction workshop (June 16 – June 23) at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony in Provincetown, MA. Click here for program details and application.
Benefit Marathon Reading of The House of Mirth
On January 26th, to celebrate Edith Wharton's 150th birthday, a reading, by women writers, of Wharton's novel.
Moderated by Jacki Lyden. Readers include Jennifer Egan, Lily Tuck, Jayne Anne Phillips, Sigrid Nunez, Hilma Wolitzer, Roxana Robinson.
The evening will benefit Wharton's house, The Mount.
Tickets: $20 to benefit The Mount
January 26th, 5:00 – 9:00 PM
Center for Fiction
17 East 47th Street
New York City
On Wednesday, February 8, as the 2012 Writer in Residence at Vassar College, Sigrid Nunez will give a public reading followed by Q & A.
Wednesday, February 8
5:30 PM
Sanders Classroom Auditorium
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY 12604
CONTACT: almateer@vassar.edu
Sigrid will also participate in The Annual Creative Writing Faculty Reading hosted by the Boston University Creative Writing Program
Wednesday, February 22
7:00 PM
The Boston University Photonics Center Auditorium
8 St. Mary's Street
Boston, MA 02215
CONTACT: crwr@bu.edu
On March 8 (7:00 – 8:00 PM), Sigrid Nunez will speak with author Peter Cameron about his new novel, Coral Glynn, in the Rare Books Room of The Strand Bookstore in NYC. Click here for information about the event.
October 17, 2011
Sigrid Nunez discusses SEMPRE SUSAN: A Memoir of Susan Sontag with Mark Oppenheimer and Binnie Klein on WNPR's Paper Trails.
SEMPRE SUSAN is a Paris Review Staff Pick.
On Monday, October 31st, as a Visiting Writer at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Sigrid Nunez will give a free public reading with Q & A:
7:00 PM
Prairie Lights Bookstore
15 South Dubuque St.
Iowa City, IA 52240
Contact: 319-337-2681
On Thursday, November 10th, as part of Colgate University's 2011 Living Writers Series, Sigrid Nunez will give a free public reading with Q &A:
4:30 PM
Persson Hall
Colgate University
13 Oak Drive
Hamilton, NY 13346
Contact: 315-228-1000
September 6, 2011
SALVATION CITY, Sigrid Nunez's sixth novel, is now out in paperback.
And click here to read a new short story, "Airport Story," in the fall issue of The Threepenny Review.
June 27, 2011
A review of SEMPRE SUSAN: A Memoir of Susan Sontag appears in the July 14th issue of The New York Review of Books.
June 16, 2011
An interview with Sigrid Nunez by Jess DeCourcy Hinds appears in the current issue of Rain Taxi Review of Books.
Sigrid Nunez will be among the ten writers participating in the Living Writers Course offered every fall at Colgate University. Click here to learn more about the course and related events.
June 6, 2011
Read the latest on SEMPRE SUSAN: A Memoir of Susan Sontag in Canada's Maclean's Magazine and Xtra!
May 26, 2011
Open City Books has just published an anthology of stories from twenty years of Open City Magazine: THEY'RE AT IT AGAIN, edited by Thomas Beller and Joanna Yas. Sigrid Nunez's story "Curiosity" is included. Among other contributors are Mary Gaitskill, Edmund White, David Foster Wallace, Charles Bukowski, Antonya Nelson, Sam Lipsyte, and Lara Vapnyar.
Sigrid Nunez will give a public reading and teach a master class in nonfiction at the University of Iowa (October 31 - November 1, 2011).
Nunez has also been appointed 2012 Writer-in-Residence at Vassar College. She will be in residence at Vassar for three weeks in February, 2012.
May 16, 2011
Read the latest review of SEMPRE SUSAN: A Memoir of Susan Sontag in The Louisville Courier-Journal.
Sigrid Nunez will participate in this year's Brooklyn Book Festival 2011 to be held in Downtown Brooklyn on Sunday, September 18, 2011.
May 10, 2011
SEMPRE SUSAN: A Memoir of Susan Sontag is included among The Slate Endorsements, staff favorites from the month of April 2011.
May 6, 2011
A short story by Sigrid Nunez, "It's All Good," appears in the latest issue of AGNI Magazine (#73).
Read a review of SEMPRE SUSAN: A Memoir of Susan Sontag in this Sunday's Los Angeles Times.
April 15, 2011
SEMPRE SUSAN has just been reviewed in The Economist and in Die Welt.
And a new interview with Sigrid Nunez by Jennifer Sky is now up on The Rumpus.net.
The San Francisco Chronicle recommends SEMPRE SUSAN.
April 8, 2011
Read new reviews of SEMPRE SUSAN in Bookforum and Tablet.
April 4, 2011
SEMPRE SUSAN is Slate's Double X Book of the Week.
Sigrid Nunez is the subject of two new videos: Episode 3 of "The Artist's Life," New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and Episode 21 of "Cooking the Books" with Emily Gould.
Read reviews of SEMPRE SUSAN in The San Francisco Chronicle and The Boston Globe.
Read an interview with Thessaly La Force for The Paris Review Daily.
March 31, 2011
Read what critics in The New York Observer and Vogue and on National Public Radio have to say about SEMPRE SUSAN: A MEMOIR OF SUSAN SONTAG:
The New York Observer
Vogue
National Public Radio: What We're Reading, March 29-April 4
And Elissa Schappell writes in Vanity Fair: "Susan Sontag roars to life …. As magnetic and complicated as Sontag herself, Nunez's homage is both critical and compassionate … [an] elegantly crafted chronicle of a young writer's artistic education."
Sigrid Nunez talks about her new memoir to Naomi Fry for ARTFORUM.
February 27, 2011
Read an excerpt adapted from Sigrid Nunez's forthcoming SEMPRE SUSAN: A Memoir of Susan Sontag in this Sunday's T, The New York Times Style Magazine.
February 14, 2011
The release date for SEMPRE SUSAN: A Memoir of Susan Sontag has been changed from April 13 to March 30, 2011.
January 31, 2011
"You Must Read This" (NPR): Sigrid Nunez talks about Jean Stafford's novel The Mountain Lion: http://www.npr.org/2011/01/27/130544147/in-mountain-lion-sibling-love-becomes-loathing
December 15, 2010
"Curiosity," a story by Sigrid Nunez, is in the new issue of Open City (#30). Visit their new website: www.opencity.org.
Click here to read Nunez's post on The Millions, A Year in Reading.
SALVATION CITY is included in Kirkus Review's 2010 Top 25 Fiction Books and is also on the Top 10 Books of the Year of two editors at Shelf Awareness.
November 24, 2010
Click here to listen to an interview with Sigrid Nunez by Joe Donahue on WAMC's The Roundtable.
Sigrid Nunez has been invited to teach a fiction workshop in the Creative Writing Program at Boston University in fall, 2011.
November 1, 2010
Sigrid Nunez joins Sean Manning and Ed Parks to discuss cherished books on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show. Click here to listen.
The new PUSHCART PRIZE anthology (2011 edition) has just been published (click here to buy it at Amazon.com). The anthology includes an excerpt from Sigrid Nunez's forthcoming memoir about Susan Sontag, SEMPRE SUSAN.
October 27, 2010
Bound to Last: 30 Writers on Their Most Cherished Book, edited by Sean Manning (Da Capo Press) has just been published. It includes an essay by Sigrid Nunez on Edith Hamilton's Mythology. Click here to buy the book on Amazon.
October 13, 2010
SALVATION CITY is a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.
October 5, 2010
Read an interview with Sigrid Nunez by Melynda Fuller on Bookslut.com.
October 1, 2010
Listen to Sigrid Nunez discussing her novel, SALVATION CITY, on WNYC's Lenny Lopate Show.
And to hear more from the author on the literary life and literary inspiration click here.
September 27, 2010
Sigrid Nunez will return to the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in August 2011. Click here to visit the website for more information.
September 20, 2010
Sigrid Nunez has received a Lannan Writing Residency Fellowship and will be in residence in Marfa, Texas, from November 15 to December 17. Nunez was also a Lannan resident fellow in 2002.
Salvation City is one of the week's Hot Reads on The Daily Beast. Click here to visit the website.
September 13, 2010
A special feature on Sigrid Nunez and Salvation City has just been posted on TheNervousBreakdown.com. Click here to read the full feature.
September 10, 2010
Click here to read an interview with Sigrid Nunez by Joyce Nickel on Belletrista.
SALVATION CITY has been selected as an Indie Next book selection for October 2010. Click here to visit the website.
August 9, 2010
Vanity Fair's book columnist Elissa Schappell on Sigrid Nunez's new novel:
"Given the recent H1N1 outbreak and the tragic escalation in the culture wars, Salvation City is not only timely and thought-provoking but also generous in its understanding of human nature. When the apocalypse comes, I want Nunez in my lifeboat."
July 9, 2010
The Millions cites SALVATION CITY among Most Anticipated Forthcoming Books.
Click here to read the article.
June 29, 2010
Read what Publishers Weekly has to say about Salvation City, the new novel by Sigrid Nunez coming from Riverhead Books on September 16th.
“The intellectually rigorous and grimly prophetic latest from Nunez (The
Last of Her Kind) initially resembles any number of coming-of-age yarns,
except that most adolescences don't coincide with apocalyptic flu
pandemics and the rise of insular church-cities. Cole Vining, however,
is not so fortunate: already struggling with a relocation from Chicago
to penny-ante Indiana and the mystery of sexual desire, the near
destruction of the human race (Cole's parents among them) launches Cole
into a rudderless future of nightmarish orphanages and angelic "rapture
children." Rescued by the charismatic and deceptive Pastor Wyatt, Cole
is brought to Salvation City, a Christian Mission closed off from the
crumbling world. There, Cole's education will resume with religious
indoctrination in place of his parents' secular cynicism, and his
evolving sense of self will collide with the corruption and hypocrisy
lurking beneath Salvation City's sanctified facade. The great success of
Nunez's book is that the end of the world is filtered through Cole's
imperfect perspective, so that the collapse of society is no more
devastating than first love, and deeply felt conflict rages as a young
man tries to find something worth preserving in a place determined to
obliterate the past.”
May 17, 2010
Sigrid Nunez is among contributors to the forthcoming anthology Bound to Last: 30 Writers on Their Most Cherished Books, edited by Sean Manning (Da Capo, October 26, 2010)
May 6, 2010
Sigrid Nunez’s essay “Sontag’s Rules,” which appeared last fall in Tin House and is part of her forthcoming memoir Sempre Susan (Atlas and Co., spring, 2011), has just been awarded a Pushcart Prize. The Pushcart Prize XXXV: (2011 Edition) will be published by the Pushcart Press in November, 2010. This is Nunez’s third Pushcart Prize.
April 28, 2010
In My Life in Books, a new feature on BarnesandNobleReview.com, actor Molly Ringwald, whose new book, Getting the Pretty Back, is just out, has this to say:
Sigrid Nunez is the kind of writer that I aspire to be. Her voice is so clear and measured. I bought her first book, A Feather on the Breath of God, because of its compelling title, and was happy to find that the book is as good as its title. As much as I love this book for introducing me to her, I think her masterpiece is The Last of Her Kind, the story of a friendship between two women who meet in college and how their lives change as one of the women becomes swept away by a radical counter-culture movement. Nunez also wrote an entire book from Virginia Woolf's monkey's point of view (Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury), which is admirable both in ambition and execution.
Click here to read the full feature.
January 25, 2010
This week, a new short story, “Nameless,” by Sigrid Nunez is being serialized on FiveChapters.com. Click here to start reading.
December 7, 2009
Listen to a new interview with Sigrid Nunez on her contribution to the anthology Mentors, Muses, and Monsters.
October 19, 2009
Read an excerpt from Sigrid Nunez’s new novel Salvation City (Riverhead, Fall 2010), published in
PEN America, Issue 11: Make Believe.
Nunez’s essay “Sontag’s Rules” is included in Mentors, Muses, & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives, edited by Elizabeth Benedict, out this month from Free Press. Click here to find out more about this anthology.
Nunez is also among the contributors to City Secrets Books: The Essential Insider’s Guide, edited by Mark Strand (series editor Robert Kahn), for which she was asked to write about a great but little-known work of literature. Nunez chose Italian writer Elsa Morante’s novel History (La Storia, 1974). Click here for more information.
Sigrid Nunez has received a winter fellowship from the Norman Mailer Writers Colony in Provincetown, MA, and will be a resident there from January 2 to January 22, 2010. Click here to visit the website.
Sigrid Nunez will teach a fiction workshop at the 2010 Nebraska Summer Writers Conference, June 13 -18. For further information click here.
September 12, 2009
“Sontag’s Rules,” a new essay by Sigrid Nunez, appears in the current issue, #41, of the magazine Tin House.
August 8, 2009
Salvation City, Sigrid Nunez’s sixth novel, has been scheduled for publication by Riverhead Books in fall, 2010.
Sigrid Nunez was among authors featured in an article on photographer Marion Ettlinger, on NPR’s “The Picture Show." Click here to read the article.
January 6, 2009
Read an interview with Sigrid Nunez in the online journal Memorious.
Sigrid Nunez
will be returning to the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
in August 2009.