{"id":65098,"date":"2025-05-20T16:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=65098"},"modified":"2025-08-14T12:45:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T16:45:43","slug":"humanities-on-the-hill-eric-puchner-susan-choi","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/event\/humanities-on-the-hill-eric-puchner-susan-choi\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanities on the Hill: Eric Puchner &amp; Susan Choi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for AGHI\u2019s Humanities on the Hill: award-winning authors and JHU faculty members Eric Puchner and Susan Choi will be in conversation about their most recent and highly acclaimed works, <em>Dream State<\/em> and <em>Flashlight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric Puchner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eric Puchner&#8217;s new novel,\u00a0<em>Dream State,<\/em>\u00a0is an Oprah\u2019s Book Club pick and a\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0bestseller, and will be adapted for TV by A24.\u00a0He is the author of three other books, including the novel\u00a0<em>Model Home<\/em>, which was a finalist for the PEN\/Faulkner Award, and the story collections\u00a0<em>Last Day on Earth<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Music Through the Floor<\/em>. His short stories and personal essays have appeared in\u00a0<em>GQ, Granta, McSweeney\u2019s, The Best American Short Stories,\u00a0<\/em>and elsewhere<em>.<\/em>\u00a0He has received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.\u00a0He is an associate professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Baltimore with his wife, the novelist Katharine Noel, and their two children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Susan Choi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Susan Choi&#8217;s latest novel is <em>Flashlight<\/em>, which is currently long-listed for the Booker Prize. She is also the author of\u00a0<em>Trust Exercise<\/em>, which received the National Book Award for fiction, and the novels\u00a0<em>The Foreign Student<\/em>,\u00a0<em>American Woman<\/em>,\u00a0<em>A Person of Interest<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>My Education<\/em>. She is a recipient of the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction, the PEN\/W. G. 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