Author Talk with Roberta Silman on Heart-work

Join us for a Saturday afternoon Author Talk with local author , Roberta Silman, to hear about her latest book Heart-Work. 

In this second compelling collection of stories Roberta Silman explores the intricacies of love, the infinite surprises that exist within families, and the yearning for guidance that can result in great leaps of the imagination on the part of her passionate and resilient characters.

Roberta Silman’s first book in 1977 was a collection of stories, Blood Relations, which won Honorable Mention for both the PEN Hemingway Prize and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. Critic Melvin Maddocks praised that volume for its astute sense of detail: “The houses people live in, the food they eat, the woods they walk through are so particular, so present. And with the same observant exactness the great joy and suffering are present that come from being attached to places, to things, and above all, to other people.” Over the decades, Silman has published stories in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The American Scholar, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and many other magazines; two were read at Symphony Space and on NPR, two more won National Magazine Awards. Now comes a second gathering of stories, Heart-work, and it brings the same “observant exactness” to its looks at the knotty intricacies of domestic life, its crises and celebrations, defeats and victories.

A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and several other awards, Silman has also written five novels: Boundaries, The Dream Dredger, Beginning the World Again, A Novel of Lose Alamos, Secrets and Shadows, and Summer Lightning. Her criticism has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and she is a senior contributor to the online magazine, ArtsFuse. More about her can be found at her website,  https://www.robertasilman.com/

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