Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT March 26, 2024
The Center for Fiction
& Livestreamed
We are thrilled to welcome back Alexandra Tanner, 2017 alum of The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowship, to celebrate the launch of her debut novel Worry. Named one of the most anticipated books of the year by Nylon, the Millions, and Debutiful, this humorous existentialist novel follows Jules and Poppy Gold, two sisters in their twenties who unexpectedly become roommates again. Together, the two navigate the absurd and anxiety-ridden world of young adulthood. Worry is a hilarious and unflinchingly honest portrayal of sisterhood and millennial life. With her debut, Tanner “woos with wonderful writing from the first to the last page” (Debutiful). Author Claire Luchette (Agatha of Little Neon) joins Tanner for a conversation about the process of crafting her debut novel and capturing the experience of 21st-century adulthood. After the conversation, Tanner will sign books.
Doors and Café/Bar will open at 6:30 and the first 25 attendees will receive a complimentary drink, courtesy of Scribner.
In Conversation
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Alexandra Tanner
Alexandra Tanner
Alexandra Tanner is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor. She is a graduate of the MFA program at The New School and a recipient of grants and fellowships from MacDowell, The Spruceton Inn’s Artist Residency, and The Center for Fiction, where she was an Emerging Writer Fellow from 2017-2018. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Granta, LARB, The New York Times Book Review, The Baffler, and Jewish Currents, among other outlets. Worry is her first novel.
Photo Credit: Sasha Fletcher
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Claire Luchette
Claire Luchette
Claire Luchette is the author of the novel Agatha of Little Neon and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree.
Featured Book
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Worry
By Alexandra Tanner
Published by Scribner
It’s March of 2019, and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Gold—anxious, artistically frustrated, and internet-obsessed—has been living alone in the apartment she once shared with the man she thought she’d marry when her younger sister Poppy comes to crash. Indefinitely. Poppy, a year and a half out from a suicide attempt only Jules knows about, searches for work and meaning in Brooklyn while Jules spends her days hate-scrolling the feeds of Mormon mommy bloggers and waiting for life to happen.
Then the hives that’ve plagued Poppy since childhood flare up. Jules’s uterus turns against her. Poppy brings home a maladjusted rescue dog named Amy Klobuchar. The girls’ mother, a newly devout Messianic Jew, starts falling for the same deep-state conspiracy theories as Jules’s online mommies. Jules, halfheartedly struggling to scrape her way to the source of her ennui, slowly and cruelly comes to blame Poppy for her own insufficiencies as a friend, a writer, and a sister. And Amy Klobuchar might have rabies. As the year shambles on and a new decade looms near, a disastrous trip home to Florida forces Jules and Poppy—comrades, competitors, constant fixtures in each other’s lives—to ask themselves what they want their futures to look like, and whether they’ll spend them together or apart.
Deadpan, dark, and brutally funny, Worry is a sharp portrait of two sisters enduring a dread-filled American moment from a nervy new voice in contemporary fiction.