BLR BookTalk: Morgan Talty with Danielle Ofri and Doris W. Cheng

ABOUT THE EVENT:

BLR BookTalks bring together writers and editors for wide-ranging conversations about craft, creativity, and life. Our latest BookTalk features Morgan Talty, the national bestselling and award-winning author of Fire Exit and Night of the Living Rez. Morgan will be joined in conversation by BLR editor-in-chief Danielle Ofri and BLR fiction editor Doris W. Cheng.

Don't miss this live conversation on June 11 as we dive into Morgan's book Fire Exit, which was the inaugural selection for BLR's new Book Club. Fire Exit is a masterful and unforgettable story of family, legacy, bloodlines, culture and inheritance, and what, if anything, we owe one another.

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Purchase Fire Exit on BLR's Bookshop page and a portion of the purchase will support BLR.

Learn more about BLR and find copies of the journal at BLReview.org. 

BIOS

Morgan Talty is a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation. His debut short story collection, Night of the Living Rez, won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kaufman Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the New England Book Award, the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Honor, and was a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, and The Story Prize. His writing has appeared in The Georgia Review, Granta, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, Narrative, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. Talty is an assistant professor of English in Creative Writing and Native American and Contemporary Literature at the University of Maine, Orono, and he is on the faculty at the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing as well as the Institute of American Indian Arts. He lives in Levant, Maine. https://www.morgantalty.com

Doris W. Cheng is a Taiwanese American writer and editor. She is the author of a fiction chapbook, Earthling (Word West Press, 2021), and her stories, essays, and interviews appear in Boston Review, Shenandoah, Chicago Review of Books, Witness, The Southampton Review, and other literary magazines. https://www.doriswcheng.com

Danielle Ofri is a founder and Editor-in-Chief of BLR. She is a primary care internist at Bellevue Hospital and a clinical professor of medicine at NYU. Her writing appears in the New York Times, The New Yorker, the New England Journal of Medicine, and elsewhere. A Guggenheim fellow, Ofri is the author of six books about life in medicine, including When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error. www.danielleofri.com

PRAISE for Fire Exit

“Utterly consuming... Fire Exit absolutely smolders.” — Tommy Orange, author of There There

“Beautifully written, sometimes funny, often heartbreaking and hopeful against all odds. Reminiscent of Raymond Carver." — BookPage