Sigrid Nunez
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Sigrid Nunez on and off the Big Screen April 10, 2025
Introducing his new film, The Room Next Door, before its screening at the New York Film Festival, Pedro Almodóvar took a moment to express his gratitude to Sigrid Nunez, the author of the novel What Are You Going Through, on which the film is based. ...
Sigrid Nunez’s Flawless Recipe for Literary Excellence November 16, 2023
Talking to Sigrid Nunez, much like reading Sigrid Nunez, is deeply pleasurable, immediately intimate. There is warmth but also urgency, and very little artifice. When I ask her a too-vague question about how time feels essential to her fiction, she a...
Background Poise November 10, 2023
THERE’S A PHOTOGRAPH of the writer Sigrid Nunez as a young woman, sometime in her mid-twenties. It is 1977 and she has graduated with an MFA from Barnard, having studied under Elizabeth Hardwick. In the picture, Nunez is quite literally radiant—her g...
Shelf Life: Sigrid Nunez November 09, 2023
Sigrid Nunez’s last book, What Are You Going Through, was a national bestseller and made its way atop many “Best of 2020” book lists. Now, she’s back with her ninth novel, The Vulnerables (Riverhead Books)—out on November 7. The story takes place at ...
Sigrid Nunez’s Lockdown Literature November 08, 2023
Early on in The Vulnerables, the just-published novel by Sigrid Nunez set during the Covid lockdowns, the narrator comments that the government measures, confining people to their homes and punishing them if they break the rules, are “for the good of...
