Ron Rash in Conversation with Richard Price
Wednesday 23 September, 2015
7pm, $0
McNally Jackson
52 Prince Street
Join Ron Rash, who the Times calls “one of the great American authors at work today,” for a celebration of his brutal new novel Above the Waterfall. Set in gorgeous, drug-ravaged Appalachia, where soon-to-be retired sheriff Les and park ranger Becky seek the perpetrator of a terrible crime, Above the Waterfall is one of Rash’s “most successful ventures into poetic humanism” (Publisher’s Weekly).
In conversation with Richard Price, author most recently of The Whites.
Ron Rash is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling novelSerena, in addition to four other prizewinning novels, including One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River,The World Made Straight, and The Cove; four collections of poems; and six collections of stories, among them Burning Bright, which won the 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award;Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award; and most recently,Something Rich and Strange. Twice the recipient of the O. Henry Prize, he teaches at Western Carolina University.
Richard Price is the author of seven novels, including Clockers, Freedomland, and Samaritan. He won a 2007 Edgar Award for his writing on the HBO series The Wire.