On Reading: Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus

In Conversation

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  Lisa Brennan-Jobs

  Lisa Brennan-Jobs

  Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s first book, a memoir called Small Fry, was a New York Times and National Bestseller and was selected as a Top Ten Book of 2018 by the New York Times, the New Yorker, People, and the San Francisco Chronicle. It was also named a Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times, NPR, the Week, GQ, Publishers Weekly, and British Vogue. Her articles and essays have appeared in Vogue, O magazine, the Southwest Review, the Massachusetts Review, the Harvard Advocate, and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.

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  Geoff Dyer

  Geoff Dyer

  Geoff Dyer’s many books include But Beautiful, White Sands, and Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi. His new book See/Saw: Looking at Photographs will be published by Graywolf in April 2021

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  Lauren Groff

  Lauren Groff

  Lauren Groff is the award-winning author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, and Fates and Furies, and the two short story collections Florida and Delicate Edible Birds. She was named one of Granta’s 2017 Best Young American Novelists. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband and sons.

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  Min Jin Lee

  Min Jin Lee

  Min Jin Lee is a recipient of fellowships in Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation (2018) and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (2018-2019). Her novel Pachinko (2017) was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, a runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, and one of the New York Times’ “Ten Best Books of 2017.” Lee is also the author of Free Food for Millionaires (2007), and her writings have appeared in the New Yorker, NPR’s Selected Shorts, One Story, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times magazine, the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian, Condé Nast Traveler, the Times of London, and the Wall Street Journal.

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  Stacy Schiff

  Stacy Schiff

  Stacy Schiff is the author most recently of The Witches: Salem, 1692 and Cleopatra: A Life, both #1 bestsellers, and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov). Among other honors, she has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEH, and was a fellow at the New York Public Library’s Center for Scholars and Writers. In 2019 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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  Meg Wolitzer

  Meg Wolitzer

  Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times bestselling author of many acclaimed novels including The Female Persuasion, The Interestings, and The Wife, which became an Oscar nominated film starring Glenn Close. Wolitzer lives in New York City.