Literature Book Party

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Please join us for a book party and signing with Bennington College literature faculty Mariam Rahmani, Farnoosh Fathi, and Stuart Nadler, celebrating their new books Liquid: A Love Story, Granny Cloud, and Rooms for Vanishing. Featuring food, drink, and short readings from the writers—free and open to all! A shuttle will be available to transport students from Campus Safety to the Frost Museum starting at 5:00 pm.

Mariam Rahmani is a writer and translator. Her debut novel, Liquid, A Love Story, comes out with Algonquin and Doubleday in March 2025. Her fiction and essays have appeared in publications like Granta, New York Magazine, People, and the Los Angeles Times’ Image Magazine, and her translation in n+1, Columbia Journal, and elsewhere. Liquid is currently being translated into Dutch and Croatian.

Farnoosh Fathi is the author of the poetry collections Great Guns (Canarium 2013) and Granny Cloud (NYRB Poets 2024), editor of Joan Murray: Drafts, Fragments, and Poems (NYRB Poets 2018), and founder of the Young Artists Language and Devotion Alliance (YALDA). She lives and teaches in New York. She is a visiting faculty member at Bennington for Spring 2025.

Stuart Nadler is the author of Wise Men, The Inseparables, and Rooms for Vanishing, and the short story collection The Book of Life. His work has been named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus and Amazon, a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writer selection, a finalist for the Mark Twain Prize for the American Voice, and has been translated across Europe. He is a recipient of the 5 Under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation. He teaches in the MFA program at Bennington College and is a visiting faculty member for Spring 2025.