Author Talk: Conscience with Alice Mattison

Join us as Alice Mattison discusses her recently released novel Conscience, a story of relationships tested in the crucible of political upheaval. 

Conscience is Alice Mattison’s seventh novel. Her earlier novels include The Book Borrower, Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn, and When We Argued All Night. Mattison is the author of The Kite and the String: How to Write with Spontaneity and Control—and Live to Tell the Tale, as well as four books of stories and a collection of poems. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Ploughshares, and has been anthologized in The Pushcart Prize, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and Best American Short Stories. She has held residencies at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, and has taught at Brooklyn College, Yale University, and, for more than twenty years, in the Bennington Writing Seminars, the MFA program at Bennington College.

This program is co-sponsored with Books on the Common. Please register.