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Meghan O\u2019Rourke, author of the 2012 best-seller The Long Goodbye: A Memoir, <\/em>will read excerpts from her book and discuss the process of writing about grief and mourning with poet Deborah Landau.<\/p>\n","start_time":"6:30 pm","end_time":"8:00 pm","performer_or_host":"Meghan O\u2019Rourke","admission":"$10 members, students, seniors; $12 non-members","main_content":" Meghan O\u2019Rourke, author of the 2012 best-seller The Long Goodbye: A Memoir, <\/em>will read excerpts and discuss the process of writing about grief and mourning with poet Deborah Landau.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meghan O\u2019Rourke<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>began her career as one of the youngest editors in the history of\u00a0The New Yorker.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>Since then, she has served as culture editor and literary critic for\u00a0Slate<\/em>\u00a0as well as poetry editor and advisory editor for\u00a0The Paris Review.<\/em>\u00a0Her essays, criticism, and poems have appeared in\u00a0Slate, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Redbook, Vogue, Poetry, The Kenyon Review,<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Best American Poetry.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>O\u2019Rourke is also the author of the poetry collections\u00a0Once <\/em>(2011) and\u00a0<\/em>Halflife<\/em>\u00a0(2007), which was a finalist for both the Patterson Poetry Prize and Britain\u2019s Forward First Book Prize. She was awarded the inaugural May Sarton Poetry Prize, the Union League Prize for Poetry from the Poetry Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, and a Front Page Award for her cultural criticism. One of three judges chosen to select\u00a0Granta<\/em>\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Best Young American Novelists in 2007, she has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and a finalist for the Rome Prize of the Academy of Arts and Letters. A graduate of Yale University, she has taught at Princeton, The New School, and New York University. She is currently working on a book about chronic illness. She lives in Brooklyn, where she grew up, and Marfa, Texas.<\/p>\n Deborah Landau\u00a0<\/em><\/b>is the author of three collections of poetry:\u00a0The Uses of the Body<\/em> and\u00a0The Last Usable Hour<\/em>, both Lannan Literary Selections from Copper Canyon Press, and\u00a0Orchidelirium<\/em>, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry. Her other awards include a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from the US Department of Education and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work has appeared in the\u00a0New Yorker<\/em>, the\u00a0Paris Review<\/em>,\u00a0Tin House<\/em>,\u00a0Poetry<\/em>, the Wall Street Journal<\/i>, and the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>, selected for\u00a0The Best American Poetry<\/em>, and included in anthologies such as Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation<\/i>, Not For Mothers Only<\/i>,\u00a0The Best American Erotic Poems<\/em>, and\u00a0Women’s Work: Modern Poets Writing in English<\/em>. Landau teaches in and directs the\u00a0creative writing program at New York University.<\/p>\n Photo by\u00a0Sarah Shatz.<\/p>\n","show_in_past_programs":true,"reserve_text":"Reserve tickets","reserve_link":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/writing-about-loss-a-conversation-with-meghan-orourke-tickets-27938911035","day":"16","month":"Feb","year":"2017","link":"http:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/programs\/writing-about-loss\/"}]