Makenna Goodman

Makenna Goodman is the author of The Shame, named a Harvard Review Favorite Book of 2020, a White Review Recommended Read, a Refinery29 Best New Book, a Literary Hub Recommended Read, a Bustle Most Anticipated Book, a Boston.com Book Club Pick, and more. Goodman has written literary criticism, interviews, essays, and short fiction for international publications including the New York Review of Books, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Catapult, Harvard Review, and BOMB.

Event: The Humor & the Shame of It

Authors, academics, mothers and friends—Makenna Goodman and Camille Guthrie—talk about their recent acclaimed books, The Shame and Diamonds, and how to write while parenting, working, and laughing and crying, often at the same time.