Department of English

• Monday, December 10, 2018 - 2:00pm to 5:00pm

Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 135 (Faculty Lounge)

Join us for some light refreshments, and pick up your free copy of the Winter Reading Project 2018-2019 book, Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan!

Jennifer Egan is the author of several novels and a short story collection.  Her new novel, Manhattan Beach, published last fall and a New York Times bestseller, has been awarded the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.  Her previous novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times book prize.  Also a journalist, she has written frequently in the New York Times Magazine—most recently about pregnancy and childbirth among opioid-dependent women.