Jennifer Gilmore And Meg Wolitzer

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The Rumpus Conversation Between Jennifer Gilmore and Meg Wolitzer

April 9th, 2013

Jennifer Gilmore and Meg Wolitzer interview each other about their new novels, and how to live deeply in your book to avoid living deeply in your own life.

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Jennifer Gilmore is the author of the just-published The Mothers, as well as Golden Country, a 2006 New York Times Notable Book, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Jewish Book Award, and Something Red, a New York Times Notable Book of 2010. Her work has appeared in magazines and journals including Allure, Bomb, BookForum, The Los Angeles Times, Nerve, the New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Salon, Tin House, Vogue and The Washington Post. Currently she teaches at Barnard College and Princeton University. Meg Wolitzer's novels include The Wife, The Position, The Ten-Year Nap, The Uncoupling, and her new book, The Interestings. Her short fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. In the fall, along with singer-songwriter Suzzy Roche, Meg Wolitzer will be a guest artist in the Princeton Atelier program at Princeton University.