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Prairie Lights Virtual | Antoine Wilson in conversation with Elizabeth McCracken

Mouth to Mouth book cover

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Antoine Wilson to celebrate the release of his new book Mouth to Mouth. He will be joined in conversation with author Elizabeth McCracken.

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The New York Times calls the book "An enthralling literary puzzle...This powerful, intoxicating book’s greatest tension is that we have no idea where it is heading.” 

Antoine Wilson is the author of the novels Panorama City and The Interloper. His work has appeared in The Paris ReviewStoryQuarterlyBest New American Voices, and The Los Angeles Times, among other publications, and he is a contributing editor of A Public Space. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and recipient of a Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin, he lives in Los Angeles. His website is: AntoineWilson.com

Elizabeth McCracken is the author of seven books, including The Souvenir MuseumBowlawayThunderstruck & Other Stories (winner of the 2014 Story Prize and long-listed for the National Book Award), and The Giant’s House (a National Book Award finalist). Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, won three Pushcart Prizes, a National Magazine Award, and an O. Henry Prize. She has served on the faculty at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and currently holds the James Michener Chair for Fiction at the University of Texas at Austin.

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