About this Event
Join us for this special homecoming event with Susanna Moore in conversation with Ann Rayson about writing, books, life and everything else in between. Book signing to follow the talk story and readings by Moore from her memoir and other recent works.
Susanna Moore has achieved an illustrious writing career spanning over forty years. In that time, she has lived an interesting arc of experiences from coast to coast and beyond, including a childhood in Hawai'i. Susanna Moore worked as a model and script reader in LA and NYC before beginning her career as a published author. Her first novel, My Old Sweetheart, published in 1982, earned a PEN Hemingway nomination, and won the Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She followed this with The Whiteness of Bones in 1989, and her third novel, Sleeping Beauties, in 1993. All three of these novels were set in Hawaiʻi and charted dysfunctional family relationships. Moore's diverse literary achievement encompasses fiction and nonfiction, including her memoir, Miss Aluminum. Her latest novel published in 2023, was recognized by Honolulu Magazine's inaugural Book Awards.
"[Moore] writes of the past with quiet insight. . . . As in all Moore's writing, the details are tartly precise. So are her striking observations, offered without sentimentality or fanfare. . . . A strong and inventive writer." —The New York Review of Books
"Moore's voice is cool and sure, rich with detail." —Vogue
"Moore belongs to a small class of writers whose work performs the paradoxical miracle of giving solace by offering none." —The Writer
About Susanna Moore
SUSANNA MOORE is the author of numerous novels, including her most recent The Lost Wife, which was named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal and the New Statesman; In the Cut, which was made into a film by Jane Campion in 2003; and My Old Sweetheart, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has written four works of nonfiction, including Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawai'i, I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawai'i, and most recently, Miss Aluminum. In 2006, she received a Fellowship in Literature at the American Academy in Berlin and in 2007, a Fellowship in Literature from the Asian Cultural Council. Moore teaches at Princeton University where she is a Visiting Fellow in Freshman Seminars. She lives in New York City.
About Ann Rayson
ANN RAYSON has enjoyed a dedicated career in teaching, writing, and publishing before retiring from the English Department of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Since 2013, Rayson has been a volunteer instructor teaching Life Writing at OLLI through UHM. A former editor and author of textbooks on Hawaiian history, Rayson is also a co-owner of Bess Press with husband and founder Benjamin Bess, a mother of three, and grandmother of four.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
da Shop: books + curiosities, 3565 Harding Avenue, Honolulu, United States
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