Maylis de Kerangal and Becca Rothfeld at Lost City

Maylis de Kerangal discusses her latest story collection, Canoes (translated by Jessica Moore), with Becca Rothfeld. This event will take place at Lost City Books, with a signing to follow!

Maylis de Kerangal is a critically acclaimed author of several books, including Birth of a Bridge, winner of the 2010 Prix Franz Hessel and Prix Médicis; The Heart, one of the Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Fiction Works of 2016 and longlisted for the Booker International Prize; The Cook, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice; and Eastbound, one of the New York Times Book Review‘s Ten Best Books of 2023.

Becca Rothfeld is the non-fiction book critic at The Washington Post, an editor at The Point, a contributing editor at The Boston Review, and the author of the essay collection All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess.