Author RVA: On “Dream State” with Eric Puchner

Join Lit Hub senior editor and novelist Jessie Gaynor, author and NPR host Mary Childs, and CMC Director Chioke I’Anson for a series of author conversations. We’ll hear from contemporary journalists, memoirists, and writers of fiction and nonfiction about how they tackle their craft, find inspiration, and quiet the creative doubt.

In this session, we’ll be speaking with award-winning author Eric Puchner, whose latest novel, Dream State, is an Oprah’s Book Club pick and New York Times best-seller. Dream State interrogates the ways our past choices and mistakes haunt our present lives as it follows the intertwined fates of three friends over the course of sixty years in the American west.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. with the event starting at 6:30 p.m.

About the Author: Eric Puchner is a New York Times Notable Books novelist whose books Model Home, Last Day, and Music Through the Floor have been finalists for prizes including New York Public Library Young Lions Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award in Fiction; his writing has appeared in outlets including GQ, Granta, Tin House, and more.