ANDREW FOSTER ALTSCHUL
Friday, May 9 at 7:30 p.m.

One of the keenly anticipated fiction debuts by a U.S. writer this year is that by onetime alternative rock DJ Andrew Altschul with his bracing novel, Lady Lazarus (Harcourt). "These pages are lit by the most seditious literary cunning. This big, taunting, passionate, ambitious tale, told in a multiplicity of voices, skewers our culture's infatuation with surfaces and our habit of maiming or killing the objects of our collective infatuation: this is glittering wordplay whose bottom note is sorrow. Andrew Altschul maybe shinily modern—postmodern—in every other way, but he is also that ancient thing, a born storyteller capable of breaking your heart." – Elizabeth Tallent. "Altschul is one of our great young writers, and Lady Lazarus is the proof. A poetic satire of rock and roll, and a rock-and-roll ode to poetry, it mirrors its heroine: smart, gorgeous, and funny as hell." – Andrew Sean Greer.

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