Gaithersburg Book Festival (2014) -- Anthony Marra ("A Constellation of Vital Phenomena") w/Ron Charles:
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Description of Pictures: Anthony Marra is the winner of a Whiting Award, a Pushcart Prize and the Narrative Prize, and his work was anthologized in "Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012." His first novel, "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena" (Crown), was shortlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize and long-listed for the National Book Award. He also was one of the inaugural winners of the Carla Furstenberg Cohen Literary Prize honoring the late co-owner of Politics & Prose Bookstore. Anthony holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where he now teaches.
Ron Charles is the fiction editor and a weekly book critic for the Washington Post. In 2008, he won the National Book Critics Circle award for his reviews.
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MARRA_140517_03.JPG: Jud Ashman, Anthony Marra, and Ron Charles
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