The BookEnds BookClub featuring 2021 Fellow Nora Decter & Susan Scarf Merrell

A virtual conversation between 2021 BookEnds Fellow Nora Decter (What’s Not Mine, ECW) and her BookEnds mentor and program co-founder and co-director Susan Scarf Merrell, author of the novel Shirley, now a major motion picture starring Elizabeth Moss.

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Nora Decter is a writer and teacher living on Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her first novel, How Far We Go and How Fast, won the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Award. She loves the shapes of sentences.

Susan Scarf Merrell is the author of Shirley: A Novel, now a major motion picture starring Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg. She is also the author of A Member of the Family, and The Accidental Bond: How Sibling Connections Influence Adult Relationships. She co-directs the Southampton Writers Conference, is program director (along with Meg Wolitzer) of the novel incubator program, BookEnds, and teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing & Literature at Stony Brook Southampton. She served as fiction editor of The Southampton Review. Essays, book reviews and short fiction appear most recently in The New York Times, Newsday, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Common Online, The Washington Post, and East Magazine.