Council Literary Series: Marisa Silver in conversation with Julie Robinson
11am | Reception
11:30am | Author Program
12:30pm | Lunch and Book Signing
Bel-Air Country Club (10768 Bellagio Road, Los Angeles, CA 90077)
Parking Information
*Valet parking is included
If you have any questions, please email The Council office at thecouncil@lfla.org or call 213.228.7506.
Our Guest Author:
Marisa Silver
Marisa Silver is the author of several acclaimed novels, including At Last, nominated for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize; Little Nothing, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and winner of the Ohioana Book Award for Fiction; and Mary Coin, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Award.
Her short fiction has won the O. Henry Prize, appeared in The New Yorker and The Atlantic, and been included in The Best American Short Stories. Silver is a Guggenheim Fellow and lives in Los Angeles. For more information, visit marisasilver.com.
Our Guest Interlocutor:
Julie Robinson
Julie Robinson is the founder and creative force behind Literary Affairs. Her company provides highly skilled facilitators to over 50 book groups per month across Los Angeles. Julie creates intimate interviews and events in luxury settings with top writers for her Charitable Round Table. Her events support various charities along with The Library Foundation of Los Angeles.
About the Book:
At Last
At Last paints a vivid portrait of the American Midwest, capturing the essence of a time and place where societal norms and personal aspirations often clashed. Marisa Silver’s narrative weaves together the lives of Helene and Evelyn, from their vastly different childhoods through the pivotal events that define them. Both intimate and expansive, and capturing the complexities of ambition and love with humor and insight, At Last is a testament to what happens when an unintended, even unwanted relationship turns out to be a central one that defines a life.
Praise
“No one else working today puts as much human complexity onto the page with such marvelous clarity as Marisa Silver. Whole lives course down the decades in her latest, and every minute of them is conveyed with Silver’s signature combination of toughness and grace. The bar is very high, but I think At Last is her finest novel yet.”
—Laird Hunt, author of Zorrie
“Masterful portraits of women’s lives, only half lived”
—Kirkus Reviews
