Edna O'Brien: The Light of Evening: A Novel, In conversation with writer Vanessa Place, Special Introduction by Anjelica Huston October 24, 2006

The great Irish novelist—known as a pioneer for her frank portrayals of women—discusses her daring new work that explores the unbreakable bond between mother & child.

Edna O'Brien is the author of 18 works of fiction, including most recently the New York Times Notable Books & Book Sense picks Wild Decembers & In the Forest, & Lantern Slides, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction. In 2002, she won the National Medal for Fiction from the National Arts Club. An honorary member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters, she was born & grew up in Ireland & has lived in London for many years.

Vanessa Place is the author of Dies: A Sentence, a 50,000-word, one-sentence novel which poet Susan McCabe describes as "humbling & beyond paraphrase, both mythic & contemporary," & the American Book Review calls a "delightful tour de force of a hopelessly grim predicament." Other work has appeared in Northwest Review, Northridge Review, Film Comment, Contemporary Literary Criticism, 4th Street: A Poetry Bimonthly, LA Weekly Literary Supplement, Five Fingers Review, & The noulipian Analects. Her nonfiction book about sex crimes & the morality of guilt is to be published in 2007 by Other Press. She is a criminal appellate attorney & co-founder of Les Figues Press, publisher of the TrenchArt series of experimental literature.

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