Acclaimed fiction writer/essayist/journalist Ben Fountain will be the featured author at The Literary Southwest Online in November. The event will be live streamed via YouTube on Friday, November 13, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. (MST). A reading, open conversation, and Q & A with Fountain will be included in the free presentation.
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In response to the Covid-19 pandemic and Yavapai College policies, The Literary Southwest Fall 2020 will be presented in an online format.
Ben Fountain’s most recent book is a nonfiction narrative, with history, of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Beautiful Country Burn Again, which is based on his Pulitzer Prize-nominated essays and reportage on that election for The Guardian. His debut novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, has been called the "Catch 22" of the Iraq War. It was adapted into a 2016 feature film directed by three-time Oscar winner Ang Lee.
A new novel, The Jacmel Wreck, is forthcoming in 2021. He is also the author of a short story collection, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara. Fountain’s work has received the National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the PEN/Cerulli Award for Excellence in Sports Writing, an O. Henry Award, two Pushcart Prizes, and a Whiting Writer’s Award, and has been a finalist for the National Book Award in both the U.S. and the U.K. (international authors division). His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde (France), Esquire, The Paris Review, Harper’s, and elsewhere. He spent five years as a "pretty good attorney" (his words) in private practice in Dallas, Texas before embarking on his stellar writing career.
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The Hassayampa Institute presents The Literary Southwest is made possible by Yavapai College and The Yavapai College Foundation. Ben Fountain’s books are available at Literary Southwest series partner Peregrine Book Company. Contact the store for purchase options and information.
