Joan Wickersham's guest appearances

Joan Wickersham

Twenty Summers

Papercuts J.P. Audio Broadcast

Quarantine Island Discs

Mike Flanagan

Jacqueline Woodson

Lindy West

Lauren Weedman

Isaac Mizrahi

Damon Young

Kris Delmhorst

Boris Fishman

Andrew Sullivan

Jessica Valenti

Adam Gopnik

Rion Amilcar Scott

Claudia Rankine

Celeste Ng

Junot Diaz

OwlTail

Joan Wickersham's most recent book of fiction is The News from Spain (Knopf). Her memoir The Suicide Index (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) was a National Book Award Finalist. She is also the author of a novel, The Paper Anniversary (Viking). Her fiction has appeared in magazines including Agni, One Story, Glimmer Train, The Hudson Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Story, and has been published in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. Her op-ed column runs regularly in The Boston Globe. She has published essays and reviews in The Los Angeles Times and The International Herald Tribune; and has read her work on National Public Radio’s “On Point” and “Morning Edition.” She also writes frequently about architecture, including “The Lurker,” a column she created for Architecture Boston magazine. She has received the Ploughshares Cohen Award for Best Short Story and has been awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Arts, The American-Scandinavian Foundation, The Massachusetts Cultural Council, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. She has taught at Harvard, Emerson, the University of Massachusetts (Boston), and the Bennington Writing Seminars. Joan graduated from Yale with a degree in art history. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Joan Wickersham's most recent book of fiction is The News from Spain (Knopf). Her memoir The Suicide Index (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) was a National Book Award Finalist. She is also the author of a novel, The Paper Anniversary (Viking). Her fiction has appeared in magazines including Agni, One Story, Glimmer Train, The Hudson Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Story, and has been published in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. Her op-ed column runs regularly in The Boston Globe. She has published essays and reviews in The Los Angeles Times and The International Herald Tribune; and has read her work on National Public Radio’s “On Point” and “Morning Edition.” She also writes frequently about architecture, including “The Lurker,” a column she created for Architecture Boston magazine. She has received the Ploughshares Cohen Award for Best Short Story and has been awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Arts, The American-Scandinavian Foundation, The Massachusetts Cultural Council, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. She has taught at Harvard, Emerson, the University of Massachusetts (Boston), and the Bennington Writing Seminars. Joan graduated from Yale with a degree in art history. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Interview with Joan Wickersham

Alysia Abbott

Twenty Summers welcomed authors Alysia Abbott (Fairyland) and Joan Wickersham (The Suicide Index) to the Barn, who have both written critically acclaimed memoirs about the fathers they loved and lost too soon. The two authors discussed their memoirs, their writing lives, and their other work in this deeply personal and fascinating conversation. WCAI was a media sponsor for this event. This event took place on May 13, 2017.

Twenty Summers welcomed authors Alysia Abbott (Fairyland) and Joan Wickersham (The Suicide Index) to the Barn, who have both written critically acclaimed memoirs about the fathers they loved and lost too soon. The two authors discussed their memoirs, their writing lives, and their other work in this deeply personal and fascinating conversation. WCAI was a media sponsor for this event. This event took place on May 13, 2017.

Alysia Abbott and Joan Wickersham in Conversation

On Saturday, March 14, 2015, Papercuts J.P. hosted local authors Celeste Ng and Joan Wickersham in a conversation on writing the family tragedy.  Celeste Ng's fiction and essays have appeared in OneStory, TriQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, and more. She is a recipient of the Pushcart Prize, and her debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Noteble Book of 2014, and was named Amazon's #1 Best Book of 2014.  Joan Wickersham's fiction and essays have appeared in OneStory, Ploughshares, Agni,  The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and more. She has received the Ploughshares Cohen Award for Best Short Story, and her newest book of fiction, The News From Spain, was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, and Kirkus Reviews. Her memoir The Suicide Index, was a 2008 National Book Award Finalist.  Papercuts J.P. is an indepdent bookstore located at 5 Green Street in Boston. 

On Saturday, March 14, 2015, Papercuts J.P. hosted local authors Celeste Ng and Joan Wickersham in a conversation on writing the family tragedy.  Celeste Ng's fiction and essays have appeared in OneStory, TriQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, and more. She is a recipient of the Pushcart Prize, and her debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Noteble Book of 2014, and was named Amazon's #1 Best Book of 2014.  Joan Wickersham's fiction and essays have appeared in OneStory, Ploughshares, Agni,  The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and more. She has received the Ploughshares Cohen Award for Best Short Story, and her newest book of fiction, The News From Spain, was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, and Kirkus Reviews. Her memoir The Suicide Index, was a 2008 National Book Award Finalist.  Papercuts J.P. is an indepdent bookstore located at 5 Green Street in Boston.

Celeste Ng & Joan Wickersham: On Writing the Family Tragedy