A literary evening with three contemporary authors, writing at the intersection of creative nonfiction and religious life. Please join us! Enter at the 243 Thompson door.
Tara Isabella Burton is the author of the novels Social Creature, The World Cannot Give, and the forthcoming Here in Avalon (Simon & Schuster, January 2024), as well as the nonfiction books Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World and Self-Made: Curating Our Image from Da Vinci to the Kardashians. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, Granta, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and more. She also co-writes the Substack newsletter "Line of Beauty" with her husband, Dhananjay Jagannathan. See more at: http://www.taraisabellaburton.com
Sarah Ventre is a Peabody-nominated audio journalist best known for her work as host of Unfinished: Short Creek, a podcast about a fundamentalist Mormon community on the Utah-Arizona border. Her reporting in this community has won multiple awards. Sarah was the reporter, writer, and managing producer for the show Witnessed: Mystic Mother, about a tantric temple that was considered a spiritual home by some, and an illegal brothel by others. She has produced for NPR, PBS, Gimlet, Vox, Critical Frequency, Crooked Media, Campside Media, The African American Policy Forum, Center for Science and the Imagination, and The Moth. More at: https://www.sarahventre.com
Briallen Hopper is a professor of English at Queens College, CUNY, teaching creative nonfiction in the MFA program. Her first book, Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions, is a collection of essays on love and friendship which received several awards. Her second book, Gilead Reread, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. Briallen’s essays, reviews, op-eds, profiles, listicles, and sermons have been published in a variety of places, including: The Chronicle of Higher Education, Columbia Journal, HuffPost, The Independent, Longreads,Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Inquiry, The New Republic, Newsweek, New York Magazine/The Cut, The Paris Review, Public Books, The Stranger, The Syndicate, the Washington Post, and The Yale Review. More at: https://www.briallenhopper.com