Island of the Mad: Reading and Video: Laurie Sheck

Laurie Sheck will be giving a multimedia presentation about her recently published hybrid fiction: Island of the Mad, which involves the discovery of a mysterious notebook and the life of Dostoevsky and is set in the Venetian lagoon. She is also the author of A Monster’s Notes (2009), centered around the un-named “monster” in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, still alive in the 21st century. A Monster’s Notes was nominated for the International DUBLIN Literary Award and was named one of the 10 Best Fictions of the Year by Entertainment Weekly. Sheck has also written five books of poems, one of which, The Willow Grove, was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She’s taught at Rutgers, Princeton, and Columbia and is currently a member of the core MFA Writing Faculty at the New School.