{"id":6341,"date":"2025-12-03T22:33:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/?p=6341"},"modified":"2025-12-05T17:40:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:40:49","slug":"vanderbilt-reading-series-welcomes-novelist-rita-bullwinkel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/vanderbilt-reading-series-welcomes-novelist-rita-bullwinkel\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanderbilt Reading Series welcomes novelist Rita Bullwinkel – December 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, December 4<\/strong>
\nBook-signing, 6:30 PM<\/strong>
\nReading, 7:00 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vanderbilt Special Collections Library
\n1101 19th Ave South
\nNashville, TN 37212<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0 \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

Rita Bullwinkel<\/a> is the author of the novels Headshot<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>(2024) and\u00a0Belly Up<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>(2018).\u00a0Headshot\u00a0<\/i>was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and Gordon Burn Prize. It was also longlisted for the Booker Prize and the Dublin Literary Award. In 2025, Bullwinkel was awarded the Addison M. Metcalf Award<\/a> by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which biennially honors a young American writer of great promise. She is a 2022 recipient of a Whiting Award<\/a>, the editor of McSweeney\u2019s Quarterly<\/a><\/em>, a contributing editor at NOON<\/a><\/em>, the creator of Oral Florist<\/a><\/em>, and the former deputy editor of The Believer<\/a><\/em>. A selection of each McSweeney\u2019s Quarterly\u00a0<\/i>issue she edits is produced for audio by\u00a0the New York Times<\/i>. In addition to editing\u00a0McSweeney\u2019s Quarterly<\/i> (the house\u2019s magazine of art and literature), Professor Bullwinkel also edits one book-length work a year for McSweeney\u2019s Book Division. Books for which she has served as editor have been longlisted for the National Book Award and named a \u201cBest Book of the Year\u201d<\/a> by the Chicago Review of Books<\/em>. As an assistant professor of English at University of San Francisco, and the Picador Guest Professor of American Literature at Leipzig University in Germany, she has taught courses on creative writing, zines, and the uses of invented and foreign languages as tools for world building. Her 2016 first English translation of Rabindranath Tagore\u2019s forgotten noir classic \u201cDetective\u201d (co-translated from the Bangla with Saquib Rahman) was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She was born in a suburb of San Francisco, in Santa Clara county, and raised across the Bay area. She lives and works in San Francisco and received her MFA in Creative Writing from Vanderbilt.<\/p>\n

Read Professor Bullwinkel’s essay, “Why I Write,”<\/a> published shortly after\u00a0Headshot.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Thursday, December 4 Book-signing, 6:30 PM Reading, 7:00 PM Vanderbilt Special Collections Library 1101 19th Ave South Nashville, TN 37212 \u00a0 \u00a0 Rita Bullwinkel is the author of the novels Headshot\u00a0(2024) and\u00a0Belly Up\u00a0(2018).\u00a0Headshot\u00a0was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and Gordon Burn Prize. It…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":6342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,8,15],"tags":[5],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-03-162443.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6341"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6346,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341\/revisions\/6346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}