Nina Revoyr's guest appearances

Nina Revoyr

Skylight Books Podcast Series

Bibliocracy Radio

Newhouse Center for the Humanities

Ang Lee

Julia Flynn Siler

Tom Sleigh

Pico Iyer

Mary Norris

Mat Johnson

Etgar Keret

Karen Russell

Marilyn Nelson

Nathan Englander

Lydia Davis

Junot Díaz

Anis Mojgani

Colum McCann

Benjamin Percy

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This week on Bibliocracy I share my interview with novelist Nina Revoyr, taped at last weekend’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the campus of U.S.C.  Revoyr has in five previous novels found new ways to examine, illustrate, dramatize and critique class, race, social and anti-social life in Southern California.  In her newest, with the enviably ironic title A Student of History, she delivers with urgency, drama, familiar and vivid description of LA places and people a story recalling Fitzgerald, Chinatown, Mike Davis and Didion; in other words, the hidden-in-plain sight betrayal of what passes for a flimsy democratic social contract by wealth, secrecy and power.  Revoyr’s earlier, and bestselling novels include Southland and The Age of Dreaming, all now out from Akashic Books.     

This week on Bibliocracy I share my interview with novelist Nina Revoyr, taped at last weekend’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the campus of U.S.C. Revoyr has in five previous novels found new ways to examine, illustrate, dramatize and critique class, race, social and anti-social life in Southern California. In her newest, with the enviably ironic title A Student of History, she delivers with urgency, drama, familiar and vivid description of LA places and people a story recalling Fitzgerald, Chinatown, Mike Davis and Didion; in other words, the hidden-in-plain sight betrayal of what passes for a flimsy democratic social contract by wealth, secrecy and power. Revoyr’s earlier, and bestselling novels include Southland and The Age of Dreaming, all now out from Akashic Books.

Sunday, April 21 – Nina Revoyr, A Student of History

Christian Campbell

Christian Campbell, a Bahamian and Trinidadian poet whose book Running the Dusk won the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, gave a reading with Nina Revoyr, the author of four novels including the Lambda Award winner Southland and the 2011 novel Wingshooters. The readings took place as part of the Distinguished Writers Series of the Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College. Elena Creef, a professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley and Newhouse Center fellow, led a discussion following the readings about multicultural writing, the role of personal experience, and the writing process.

Readings from Christian Campbell and Nina Revoyr