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Maile Meloy & Claire Messud

Hear authors Maile Meloy and Claire Messud in conversation at 2017’s Wordstock: Portland’s Book Festival. In this conversation, titled “Innocence Lost,” the authors discuss their newest works, Do Not Become Alarmed and The Burning Girl, both of which explore what it means to be innocent and what happens when that innocence seems to disappear.

November 11th, 2017

2017-2018

Portland, Oregon

Topic:

  • Craft & Writing
  • Family Life / childhood
  • Feminism

Tone:

  • Conversational

Genre:

  • Fiction

In this episode of The Archive Project, bestselling authors Maile Meloy and Claire Messud discuss their new books: psychological mysteries where children go missing and painful truths are revealed in crisis, exploring the spaces between childhood innocence and the hard realities of adulthood. In Maile Meloy’s Do Not Become Alarmed, the children go missing while two families are vacationing in Latin America, sending the parents into panic and forcing the children to discover untapped resourcefulness. In The Burning Girl, Claire Messud explores the intense bond and break of a girlhood friendship, questioning how well we can ever know even the people we are closest to—or ourselves. This conversation is moderated by John Freeman, editor of Freeman’s.

 

Maile Meloy is the author of the novels Liars and Saints and A Family Daughter; the short story collections Half in Love and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (named one of the “10 Best Books of 2009” by the New York Times Book Review); and a bestselling middle-grade trilogy. Her fiction has won the Paris Review‘s Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Meloy was shortlisted for the UK’s Orange Prize for Fiction and chosen as one of Granta‘s Best Young American Novelists.

 

Claire Messud is a recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Author of five previous works of fiction including her most recent novel, The Woman Upstairs, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her family.

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A retrospective of some of the most engaging talks from the world’s best writers from over 30 years of Literary Arts in Portland. The Archive Project features the most sought-after talks from our Portland Arts & Lectures series and special events. Each week, we publish new lectures available for streaming on this website for free. With over 250 original lectures by the most creative and articulate minds of our generation, these discussions offer special moments between world-famous authors and our local literary community. Select episodes of The Archive Project air every Wednesday at 10:00 p.m. on OPB radio. Click here to visit the show’s homepage on opb.org. Episodes released on our website and on OPB Radio are available for download on iTunes in the podcast section under "Literary Arts." Click here to visit The Archive Project on iTunes.

Also from this season:

  • Mohsin Hamid

    April 5th, 2018

  • Lit Crawl Portland 2017

    October 10th, 2017

  • Doree Shafrir and Ellen Ullman

    November 11th, 2017

  • Dawn Lundy Martin, Morgan Parker, Danez Smith

    November 11th, 2017

  • Lawrence Wright (Rebroadcast)

    January 14th, 2014

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