{"id":6167,"date":"2025-10-28T18:51:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/?p=6167"},"modified":"2025-11-07T16:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:35:06","slug":"fiction-reading-with-marie-helene-bertino-november-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/fiction-reading-with-marie-helene-bertino-november-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiction reading with Marie-Helene Bertino – Thursday, November 6"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thursday, November 6<\/strong><\/p>\n

Book-signing: 6:30 PM
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Special Collections Library
\n1101 19th Ave South, Nashville, TN 37212<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but she reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes she is different: She possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on the oddities of Earthlings. <\/em>For years, as she moves through the world and makes a life for herself among humans, she dispatches transmissions on the terrors and surprising joys of their existence. Then, at a precarious moment, a beloved friend urges Adina to share her messages with the world. Is there a chance she is not alone? <\/em>Marie-Helene Bertino\u2019s <\/em>Beautyland is a novel of startling originality about the fragility and resilience of life on our Earth and in our universe. It is a remarkable evocation of the feeling of being in exile at home, and it introduces a gentle, unforgettable alien for our times.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Marie-Helene Bertino<\/a>\u00a0is the author of, most recently,\u00a0Beautyland<\/a><\/i>, a National Book Critics Circle Finalist and a New York Times<\/em> Notable 100<\/a> and Time Magazine<\/em> Top 10 Book of 2024<\/a>. A 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction<\/a>, she is currently the Ritvo-Slifka Writer-in-Residence at Yale University<\/a>.\u00a0Exit Zero<\/a><\/i>, her second short story collection, was released in April! She is also the author of the novels 2.am. at The Cat\u2019s Pajamas<\/a><\/i>,\u00a0Parakeet<\/a><\/i>, and the story collection\u00a0Safe as Houses<\/a><\/i>, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award<\/a>. Her work has appeared in the New York Times<\/em>, Electric Literature, Tin House, McSweeneys, Granta, BOMB, Guernica,\u00a0<\/i>and many others. Honors include the Frank O\u2019Connor International Short Story Fellowship in Cork, Ireland<\/a>, the PEN\/O. Henry Prize<\/a>, and the Pushcart Prize. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories<\/em>, Pen\/O. Henry Prize Stories<\/em>, and\u00a0Mississippi Review <\/i>and has been featured on NPR\u2019s \u201cSelected Shorts\u201d program. She taught for many years in the Creative Writing programs of NYU, The New School, and Institute for American Indian Arts.<\/p>\n

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This event is part of the Gertrude C. & Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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