A Discussion with Jill McCorkle Moderated by Professor Margot Singer

A Discussion with Jill McCorkle Moderated by Professor Margot Singer

Tuesday, August 25, 2020 7:00 pm EDT to 8:00 pm EDT

Virtual Event

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Join the live book club discussion about Jill McCorkle’s latest novel “Hieroglyphics” moderated by Margot Singer, Denison Professor and Director of the Eisner Center.

In partnership with Gramercy Books, participants have the opportunity to hear from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jill McCorkle “Life After Life” during the live streamed discussion of her engrossing latest novel. “Hieroglyphics” has been called a triumph, one that explores the physical and emotional imprints that make up a life. Margot Singer, creative writing professor at Denison University and an award-winning novelist will serve as moderator.

“Hieroglyphics” reveals the difficulty of ever really knowing the intentions and dreams and secrets of the people who raised you. In her deeply layered and masterful novel, Jill McCorkle deconstructs and reconstructs what it means to be a father or a mother, and what it means to be a child piecing together the world all around us, a child learning to make sense of the hieroglyphics of history and memory.

Jill McCorkle’s first two novels were released simultaneously when she was just out of college, and the New York Times called her “a born novelist.” Since then, she has published six novels and four collections of short stories, and her work has appeared in “Best American Short Stories” several times, as well as “The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction.” Five of her books have been New York Times Notable books, and her most recent novel, “Life After Life,” was a New York Times bestseller. She has received the New England Booksellers Award, the John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature, and the North Carolina Award for Literature. She has written for the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Garden and Gun, the Atlantic, and other publications. She was a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Fiction at Harvard, where she also chaired the department of creative writing. She is currently a faculty member of the Bennington College Writing Seminars and is affiliated with the MFA program at North Carolina State University.

Margot Singer’s most recent novel, “Underground Fugue,” won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction. Her collection of short stories, “The Pale of Settlement” won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, among other honors. Her short fiction and nonfiction have been widely published and she is a Professor of English at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.

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