The Center for Fiction Presents Louise Erdrich on ‘Python’s Kiss’ with Lauren Groff

Join The Center for Fiction for a virtual discussion with beloved Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich on her new short-story collection, Python’s Kiss.

In Python’s Kiss, one of America’s most significant authors explores the connections between humans, animals, and the environment in her first short fiction anthology since 2009. Written over the last two decades, Python’s Kiss features an incredible breadth of characters, including small-town journalists, immigrant farmers, folk-singing thieves, and fraught families—all primarily centered around the fictional small town of Tabor. Suffused with magical realism and a blurring of the line between ordinary and mythological, the book is also a multimedia exercise in connection, with illustrations by Erdrich’s daughter, Aza E. Abe, interwoven throughout.

Erdrich will be joined in conversation by celebrated author Lauren Groff (Brawler, Fates and Furies). In addition to being fellow indie bookstore owners, Erdrich and Groff are longtime admirers of each other’s work. Aza E. Abe will also join midway through the event to share how she approached creating visual art for the stories.

This event is co-presented with Groff’s bookstore, The Lynx.

This is a virtual event.