Karen Joy Fowler is a Man Booker and PEN/Faulkner finalist, Nebula Award winner and beloved past Literary Sojourn author who returns in 2022 as Literary Sojourn’s Master of Ceremonies. Author of seven novels and three short story collections, Fowler brings us her riveting new historical novel, Booth, an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth. “Booth is a triumph! No one writes like Karen Joy Fowler, and in this gripping family saga, she has taken a piece of American history we thought we knew and told it slant. With wit, heart, and revelatory insight, she teases ghosts from their shadows, transforming the way we see the past, shedding new light on our troubled present,” says fellow past Sojourn author Ruth Ozeki. NPR’s All Things Considered called Fowler’s last novel, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, “absolutely sublime.” Previously, The Jane Austen Book Club spent 13 weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Wit’s End portrayed the signature oddball and endearing characters that also earned her novel Sarah Canary the distinction of being a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999, and her collection What I Didn’t See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011. “No contemporary writer creates characters more appealing, or examines them with greater acuity and forgiveness, than she does,” raves Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon.
Omar El Akkad
Omar El Akkad is an author and a journalist. His second novel, What Strange Paradise, won the Scotiabank Giller prize for 2021. In the Washington Post, Ron Charles calls it, “Riveting…Nothing I’ve read before…
Jason Mott
Jason Mott’s fourth novel, Hell Of A Book, won the 2021 National Book Award for fiction. It’s a story that goes to the heart of racism, police violence and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans…
Gary Shteyngart
Russian-born author Gary Shteyngart wins over readers and audiences with his blistering humor, his satirical takedowns of contemporary society, and his compassionate examination of modern love and loss…
Ausma Zehanat Khan
Claire Vaye Watkins’ new novel is I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness, a darkly funny, soul-rending novel of love in an epoch of collapse—one woman’s furious revisiting of family, marriage, work, sex and motherhood…