2009 Presenters
Jessica Anthony
Jessica Anthony is author of the novel The Convalescent, released through McSweeney’s Books. Recently, she received the Amanda Davis Highwire Award, a grant issued through McSweeney’s. She is currently working on her next novel.
Reviews of The Convalescent:
“Jessica Anthony is a writer possessed of mind-bending talents. Inconceivably, she's written a novel that's innocent and wise, grave and hilarious, bleak and hopeful, fast-paced and meditative, heartbreaking and heart healthy, evanescent and concrete. Reading it, I felt as though I'd stumbled upon a magical text that might, at any moment, disappear from my hands. The Convalescent is that kind of special.” -Heidi Julavits
“The Convalescent is a fleshy fable spinning in and out of its own enormous, fabulous history. It is lush, cranky, and powered by dark, sweet humor. Mesmerizing. And a lot of fun. I enjoyed it completely.” -Katherine Dunn
"A blissfully nutty, brainy, ribald, brilliantly imaginative ode to human loneliness, oddity, and persistence" --Francisco Goldman, author of The Long Night of White Chickens, The Divine Husband
Appearing in: And Now For Something Different
