![]() ![]() What was haunting you?īack in the fall of 2009, one of my Columbia MFA students asked if I would contribute a 300-word piece on a historical figure to a literary magazine he was starting. I always want to know what was haunting the author before he or she wrote the book. Thank you so much for being here, Stephen. He teaches in the Sarah Lawrence MFA writing program. His story, “Ziggurat,” was read by Tim Curry on Selected Shorts. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, and many other journals. STEPHEN O’CONNOR is the author of five books, most recently, Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings, a novel, and Here Comes Another Lesson, short stories. ![]() What I especially loved about Stephen O'Connor's brilliant novel THOMAS JEFFERSON DREAMS OF SALLY HEMINGS is that he's taken a presidential "he can do no wrong" icon and peeled back the layers for us, fashioning a novel that is complex, unsettling and blazingly original. ![]()
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