Literature Evening with Paul La Farge

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | A reading by Bennington faculty member Paul La Farge. La Farge is the author of four novels: The Night Ocean (Penguin/Random House), The Artist of the Missing (FSG), Haussmann, or the Distinction (Picador), and Luminous Airplanes (FSG), which continues as a large Web-based hypertext. He has also written a book of imaginary dreams, The Facts of Winter (McSweeney's). His stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Harper's, McSweeney’s, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere.

He has taught previously at Columbia University, Wesleyan University, Bard College, Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of Leipzig. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bard Fiction Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and the American Academy in Berlin. He joined the Bennington faculty in Fall 2020.

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