Sigrid Nunez

Sean Manning, writer and editor of Bound to Last: 30 Writers on Their Most Cherished Book discusses the book along with two of its contributors; Ed Park, a founding editor of The Believer and author of Personal Days: A Novel, and Sigrid Nuñez, author of Salvation City.

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Sigrid Nunez talks about her latest novel, Salvation City. Set after a deadly flu pandemic in the United States, it tells the story of an orphaned teenager who finds refuge with an evangelical pastor and his wife in a small Indiana town.

Writers Elizabeth Benedict, Sigrid Nunez, and Lily Tuck discuss the people who most influenced them. Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives was edited by and includes an essay by Elizabeth Benedict. Sigrid Nunez writes about what it was like to be Susan ...