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Daisy Alpert Florin, "My Last Innocent Year" (Henry Holt, 2023)

2023/2/17
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Today I talked to Daisy Alpert Florin about her new novel My Last Innocent Year) (Henry Holt, 2023).

Daisy Alpert Florin attended Dartmouth College and received graduate degrees from Columbia University and Bank Street Graduate School of Education. She is a recipient of the 2016 Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellowship at Sarah Lawrence College and was a 2019–20 fellow in the BookEnds novel revision fellowship, where she worked with founding director Susan Scarf Merrell. A native New Yorker, Daisy lives in Connecticut with her family.

Recommended Books:

  • Kevin Wilson, Now is Not the Time to Panic

  • Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves

  • Elena Ferrante, The Lying Lives of Adults

Chris Holmes)* is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro as World Literature, is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival), a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers.*

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