Emma Straub

Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures (Riverhead Books)

Brooklyn-based writer Emma Straub, author of the short story collection Other People We Married, returns to Skylight to read and sign her debut novel, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures. "Emma Straub is a magician, full of brilliance and surprise." --Lorrie Moore "An exquisite debut novel that brings Depression-era Hollywood to life with startling immediacy. Laura Lamont is a memorable character, and Emma Straub illuminates her inner life with uncanny authority." --Tom Perrotta Emma Straub is from New York City. Her fiction and non-fiction have been published by Tin House, The Paris Review Daily, Time, Slate, and The New York Times, and she is a staff writer for Rookie. Emma lives with her husband in Brooklyn, where she also works as a bookseller. Photo of the author by Sarah Shatz.

Copies of the book can be purchased here: http://tinyurl.com/c77ag8h

THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS SEPTEMBER 12, 2012.