Gaithersburg Book Festival (2014) -- Panel -- Emerging Voices in Fiction w/Mary Kay Zuravleff, Fiona Maazel and Susan Coll:
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Description of Pictures: Mary Kay Zuravleff’s latest novel, "Man Alive!" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), tells the story of a Bethesda psychiatrist who is struck by lightning and now only wants to barbecue. The Washington Post called it “a family novel for smart people,” and named it a 2013 Notable Book. People Magazine praised her “intelligence and sly humor.” Her earlier novels, "The Bowl Is Already Broken" and "The Frequency of Souls," won the James Jones Award and the American Academy’s Rosenthal Award. Mary Kay lives in Washington, D.C., where she serves on the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and is a cofounder of the D.C. Women Writers Group.
“A lightning bolt to a parking meter certainly packs a punch, but so does every sentence and scene of this exuberant novel. Mary Kay Zuravleff writes so well—with such wit and compassion and wry intelligence—that she can make the daily, domestic life that follows Owen Lerner’s encounter with the transcendent as electrifying as the lightning strike itself. A suburban marriage, a young romance, gymnastics, brain chemistry, backyard barbeque, wherever Zuravleff aims her keen eye, something transformative happens, the way a thunderbolt turns sand to glass. 'Man Alive!' is vividly alive and breathing. A sparkling book.” — Alice McDermott, National Book Award-winning author of "After This" and "Someone"
Fiona Maazel, author of "Woke Up Lonely" (Graywolf Press) and "Last Last Chance," is winner of the Bard Prize for Fiction and a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree. Her work has appeared in BOMB, Bookforum, N+1, The New York Times Book Review, Tin House and many other publications. Fiona teaches at Brooklyn College, New York University, Princeton and Columbia. She lives in Brooklyn. Read our Q&A with Fiona. Twitter: @fionamaazel Facebook: Fiona Maazel
Susan Coll
Susan Coll, author of the forthcoming novel, "The Stager" (Sarah Crichton Books, July 2014), works at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. She is the author of the novels "Beach ...More...
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2014 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
three Civil War Trust conferences (Winchester, VA, Nashville, TN, and Atlanta, GA),
Michigan to visit mom in the hospice before she died and then a return trip after she died, and
my 9th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Las Vegas, Reno, Carson City, Sacramento, Oakland, and Los Angeles).
Ego strokes: Paul Dickson used one of my photos as the author photo in his book "Aphorisms: Words Wrought by Writers".
Number of photos taken this year: just over 470,000.