SwatTalk: Adam Haslett ’92

“Mothers & Sons: Family and Politics in Contemporary Fiction” with Adam Haslett ’92

Adam Haslett ’92 is one of America’s most acclaimed fiction writers. His novels and short stories, which discuss topics like grief, mental illness, military hubris, and financial ruin, have twice been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and have won the Los Angeles Time Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award. His new novel, Mothers & Sons, which Publishers Weekly hailed for “match[ing] the heights of Haslett’s best work,” is about family dynamics, gay identity, America’s immigration system, and using work to avoid the self.

Please join Haslett for a conversation with Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor Emeritus of English Philip Weinstein, author of the forthcoming memoir Time’s Bounty.