C. Michelle Lindley’s work can be found in Conjunctions, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for 2024 and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University and a BA in English and Art History from the University of California at Berkeley.
The Nude is her first novel.
At the Guardian Lindley tagged five "novels about art – and also about so much more." One title on the list:
Wet Paint by Chloë AshbyRead about the other entries on the list.
This compassionate debut by art historian Ashby centers on Eve, a young waitress suppressing traumas large and small, including the death of her best friend, Grace. When Eve decides to take up life modelling, posing nude for a group of students, her anxieties and aspirations sharpen into focus. Eve is both acutely observed and acutely observant; the novel takes its time with her, meticulously tracking one woman’s desperate longing for selfhood, self-possession and, ultimately, resilience.
--Marshal Zeringue
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