Siri Hustvedt: Vocation of the Writer

American novelist and essayist Siri Hustvedt gives the Vocation of the Writer talk at Holy Cross on April 10, 2014. She is the author of “The Blazing World” (Simon & Schuster), published in March of 2014, and internationally bestselling novels “What I Loved” and “The Summer Without Men.” She has published three collections of essays and nonfiction work including, “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves.” She is the recipient of the 2012 International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities.
Hustvedt talks about the power of language, the quasi-emotions experienced when reading a good story, and fiction as a vehicle for truth.
The event is co-sponsored by the English department’s Creative Writing Program and the Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J. Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture.