Late-Life Love & Heartbreak
ROXANA ROBINSON in conversation with MARION WINIK
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
31st Street & Barclay Street
Waverly Neighborhood
ROXANA ROBINSON discusses her laudable novel Leaving, an “engrossing exploration of the vows we make to one another and the tensile relationships between parents and their children” with MARION WINIK, the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Service Award recipient. Leaving charts a passage through loyalty and desire as it builds to a shattering conclusion. In what’s deemed her most powerful work to date, Roxana Robinson demonstrates her “trademark gifts as an intelligent, sensitive analyst of family life…and what we owe to others and ourselves.” (Wendy Smith, Chicago Tribune)
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ROXANA ROBINSON is the author of Dawson’s Fall, four earlier novels including Sparta, three story collections, and the biography, Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life. Four of these were New York Times Notable Books. “Leaving charts a passage through loyalty and desire as it builds to a shattering conclusion. She was named a Literary Lion by the NYPL, was a finalist for the NBCC Balakian Award, and has received fellowships from the NEA, the MacDowell Colony, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is the President of the Authors Guild.
“Roxana Robinson’s stunning new novel, Leaving, cost me some sleep and continues to reverberate. A study of the complex joy and pain of late-life love, it is a tour de force and arguably her finest work yet.”
– Joan Frank, Washington Post
https://www.roxanarobinson.com
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MARION WINIK is the author of nine books, including The Big Book of the Dead and First Comes Love. Her essays have been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Sun, and elsewhere; her column at BaltimoreFishbowl.com has been running since 2011. A professor at the University of Baltimore, she reviews books for The Washington Post, Oprah Daily, and People, among others, and hosts the NPR podcast The Weekly Reader. She was a commentator on All Things Considered for fifteen years. She is the recipient of the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Service Award. Awards gleaned from The Book of the Dead: A Finalist for the 2019 NAIBA Book of the Year in Nonfiction, A PBS NewsHour Best Book of the Year, Winner of the 2019 Towson Prize for Literature, One of the Top Ten Books of the Year, The Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ).
“Intrepid NPR commentator Winik’s voice is as unique as her observations and as recognizable as her experiences. By turns pithy and poignant, outraged and outrageous, Winik . . . once again mines the rich veins of her personal life . . . and while the laughs are still there, there’s also a tempered maturity that nicely balances Winik’s self-deprecating, tongue-in-cheek approach. Middle age is upon her, a perfect time for reflection and prediction, appreciation and apprehension, making amends and making a difference.” –Booklist
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