Lorrie Moore, I AM HOMELESS IF THIS IS NOT MY HOME: A Novel

Presented in partnership with Morton Memorial Library.

Lorrie Moore will be in conversation with her editor, Victoria Wilson.

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Join us to hear Lorrie Moore discuss her first novel since A Gate at the Stairs—a daring, meditative exploration of love and death, passion and grief, and what it means to be haunted by the past, both by history and the human heart.

Image of Ms. Moore by John Foley - Opale Bridgeman Images. Image of Ms. Wilson by Joyce Ravid.

With her distinctive, irresistible wordplay and singular wry humor and wisdom, Lorrie Moore has given us a magic box of longing and surprise as she writes about love and rebirth and the pull towards life. Bold, meditative, theatrical, this new novel is an inventive, poetic portrait of lovers and siblings as it questions the stories we have been told which may or may not be true. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home takes us through a trap door, into a windswept, imagined journey to the tragic-comic landscape that is, unmistakably, the world of Lorrie Moore.

Lorrie Moore is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, as well as the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award for her achievement in the short story. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Victoria Wilson is a Vice President, Executive Editor at Alfred A. Knopf, Publishers. She has served on the boards of PEN American Center, the National Board Review of Motion Pictures, the Writing Program of the New School for Social Research, and Poets & Writers. She was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the US Commission on Civil Rights. Wilson has talked in conversation with writers and directors before audiences at the 92nd Street Y, the AFI in Silver Spring, Film Forum, McNally Jackson, Philadelphia Free Library, Miami Book Fair, the West Tisbury Library, Brooklyn Rail Magazine, Martha’s Vineyard Museum, Harvardwood, the New School of Social Research, the Jerusalem Film Festival, Barnes & Noble, Hotchkiss Library, among many others. She grew up on Martha’s Vineyard and lives in New York City and upstate New York. Her acclaimed biography, A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907–1940, Volume One, was published by Simon & Schuster. She is at work on the concluding volume of the Stanwyck biography.