National Book Award winning author of Mating, Norman Rush, will read from his long-awaited new novel, Subtle Bodies, in which he leaves Africa but returns to familiar terrain: a narrative driven by a female voice; a cast of self-conscious characters—here, a group college friends reuniting 20 years after graduation—whose attention oscillates between the macro (war, death, imperialism) and the micro (farting around your lover, ovulation, prankery). With Marco Roth, co-founder and editor of n+1 and author of The Scientists.

Norman Rush is the author of three previous works of fiction: Whites, a collection of stories, and two novels, Mating and Mortals. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Best American Short Stories. Rush and his wife live in Rockland County, New York.

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