BGuthrie Photos: Gaithersburg Book Festival (2014) -- Mary Kay Zuravleff, Fiona Maazel, Susan Coll

Gaithersburg Book Festival (2014) -- Mary Kay Zuravleff, Fiona Maazel, Susan Coll:

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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 Week," "Acceptance," "Rockville Pike" and karlmarx.com. "Acceptance" was made into a television movie starring Joan Cusack in 2009. She lives in Washington, D.C.

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Featured Folk: Some of the people here can also be seen on other pages on this site.
- Coll, Susan appears on:
  - 2023_DC_Moment_Pre_231112 DC -- Moment Magazine's 2023 Gala and Awards Dinner @ Adas Israel Congregation -- (Page 1 of 2) Pics except stage pgm and afterward
  - 2023_DC_Kalb_230722 Politics & Prose -- Deborah Kalb ("Off to Join the Circus") w/Susan Coll
  - 2023_MD_GBF_SCSR_230520 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2023) -- Susan Coll, Shauna Robinson
  - 2022_DC_Pen_Faulkner_SOTU_221021 PEN/Faulkner's Literary State of the Union
  - 2022_DC_Noir_Bookstore_220930 Politics & Prose -- Panel: Noir at the Bookstore w/E.A. Aymar, Louis Bayard, James Grady, Cheryl Head, Angie Kim, and Sujata Massey
  - 2022_DC_NBF_PP_220903 Natl Book Festival 2022 -- Politics and Prose Area
  - 2022_DC_NBF_Funnier_220903 Natl Book Festival 2022 -- Is Anything Funnier Than Politics? with Susan Coll, Grant Ginder and Xochitl Gonzalez
  - 2019_MD_GBF_AKEK_190518 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2019) -- Angie Kim, Eugenia Kim (w/Susan Coll)
  - 2019_MD_WWC_P15_190511 Washington Writers Conference (2019) -- Saturday -- Panel: Literary Fiction: The Great Undefinable
  - 2018_MD_GBF_Coll_180519 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2018) -- Susan Coll and The Writer's Center's "The Novel Year" workshop
  - ...More (List all 30 pages with this person)...
- Zuravleff, Mary Kay appears on:
  - 2023_MD_GBF_MKZJM_230520 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2023) -- Mary Kay Zuravleff, Joe Milan Jr.
  - 2023_MD_GBF_Reception_230519 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2023) -- Author Reception @ Asbury Methodist Village
  - 2023_DC_Patrick_230516 Politics & Prose -- Bethanne Patrick ("Life B") w/Alexandra Zapruder
  - 2023_MD_WWC_P09_230513 Washington Writers Conference (2023) -- Saturday -- Panel: Historical Fiction: In Living Memory
  - 2023_MD_WWC_P03_230513 Washington Writers Conference (2023) -- Saturday -- Panel: Voices Across Genres
  - 2023_MD_WWC_M_230513 Washington Writers Conference (2023) -- Saturday -- Miscellaneous
  - 2019_MD_WWC_P15_190511 Washington Writers Conference (2019) -- Saturday -- Panel: Literary Fiction: The Great Undefinable
  - 2015_MD_GBF_Coll_150516 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2015) -- Susan Coll ("The Stager") w/Mary Kay Zuravleff
  - 2015_MD_GBF_Peabody_150516 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2015) -- Richard Peabody, James Grady, Rose Solari, Mary Kay Zuravleff
  - 2010_DC_Carla_Tribute_101121 Politics & Prose -- Carla Cohen Tribute -- People
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