Free We are extremely excited and grateful to announce Susan Choi as this year s final Visiting Writer of the season. Susan Choi and her work have been praised by many. Choi’s fifth novel Trust Exercise won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction. Described as “electrifying” (People) and “thrilling” (Boston Globe), it tells the story of a group of teenagers at a competitive arts school somewhere in American suburbia in the 1980s.
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The National Book Award winner chats with us about writing what she knows.
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Chris Vognar
4/19/2021 at 12:39pm
Susan Choi wants you to know that CAPA, the performing arts high school at the center of her National Book Award-winning novel
Trust Exercise, is not supposed to be Houstonâs Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
She understands why you might think it is. Choi attended Kinder (then known as HSPVA) from 1983 to 1986âbut she liked it. âI didnât know until I got there that there were places like that where kids who are interested in creativity could all be together,â she says by phone from her home in New York. âIt was extremely nonconformist and supportive. It really did feel like a beacon for kids from all over the city who loved the arts, and that was kind of amazing. That was definitely not something that I had been exposed to before that, a place where you could go and people would play music in the halls.â
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National Book Award-winning novelist Susan Choi, MFA ’95, returns to Cornell for a virtual reading on Thursday, April 22 at 7 p.m. Registration is required for this free and open to the public event.
Susan Choi
Susan Choi and her work have been praised by many. Joan Didion describes her as “A natural a writer whose intelligence and historical awareness effortlessly serve a breathtaking narrative ability.” Jennifer Egan says Choi’s work is “Deeply impressive, confident… astute, psychologically persuasive.” Jhumpa Lahiri says Choi writes “with uncompromising grace and mastery.”
Choi plans to read from her short story “Flashlight.” The reading will be followed by conversation and a live Q&A, moderated by Professor and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow Stephanie Vaughn.
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