Summary: Antonya Nelson is the award-winning author of nine books of fiction, including Nothing Right, Talking in Bed, Nobody’s Girl, and Living to Tell. Nelson’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s, Redbook, The Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Grant, and recently, the United States Artists Simon Fellowship. Nelson is known for her razor-sharp depictions of contemporary family life in all of its sometimes sad, sometimes hilarious complexity. Bound, her much anticipated first novel in over a decade, tells the story of tangled lives, set in a Wichita, riveted by the reemergence of the city’s real-world “BTK” serial killer. She is married to the writer Robert Boswell and holds the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston. Recorded live on September 30, 2010 at the Minneapolis Central Library. The Talk of the Stacks is presented by the Library Foundation of Hennepin County and the Private Client Reserve at US Bank.
