Connecticut College, and earned her MFA at Hunter College. Her work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, Real Simple, Saveur, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, and on NPR’s Selected Shorts. She teaches creative writing to small groups and in the corporate space and lives in Sag Harbor, New York with her family.
[Writers Read: Jessica Soffer (April 2013); My Book, The Movie: Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots]
Soffer's new novel is This Is a Love Story.
At Lit Hub she tagged six essential literary love stories that "do not sugarcoat the inescapable fact that love is a heavy lift." One title on the list:
Emma Straub, Modern LoversRead about the other entries on the list.
Emma Straub is the most delightful writer and this novel is perhaps my favorite of hers. It follows a group of former punk rock bandmates who met at Oberlin College in 1980s to Brooklyn, present day where they have families and careers and the shared sadness of a friend’s death.
Though there is particular focus on time passing, secrets, trauma that hasn’t been worked through and parental love, what strikes me most is Straub’s masterful handling of shifting the love dynamics in a close-knit long-term friend group.
--Marshal Zeringue
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