Local Author Speaks at VMI
麻豆女演员 Institute welcomes James A. McLaughlin, acclaimed author of 鈥淏earskin鈥� and 鈥淧anther Gap,鈥� for a reading of his work, Tuesday, March 19 at 7:45 p.m. in Gillis Theater. The event is free and open to the public.
鈥淏earskin,鈥� which is set in a remote forest preserve in Virginian Appalachia, was published by Ecco/HarperCollins in 2018, and winner of the 2019 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. It appeared earlier in The Missouri Review and won the 2009 William Peden Prize in fiction.
McLaughlin鈥檚 more recent novel, 鈥淧anther Gap,鈥� set in the rugged American West, was published by Flatiron/Macmillan in 2023, and was chosen as an Apple Books Best Book of the Month, and an Amazon Editor鈥檚 Pick. His essays and fiction have appeared in River Teeth, Camas, Portland Review, Clackamas Literary Review, and elsewhere. His essay, 鈥溌o Pasaran! Rage and ORVs鈥� was chosen as a Notable Essay of 2003 in The Best American Essays, 2004. McLaughlin grew up in the mountains of Virginia, but now lives in the mountains east of Salt Lake City, Utah.
The event is sponsored by the Dean鈥檚 Academic Speakers Program, and the Department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies.
