Eric Puchner is Coming to Unbound!

One of the panels that we are most looking forward to this year is about writing comedy. (It’s much harder to make people laugh than you might think.) One author who is very good at this is Eric Puchner, and we’re thrilled that he’ll be coming to the festival to talk about the serious business of writing funny stuff.

Eric Puchner is the author of the novel Model Home, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and two collections of stories, Music Through the Floor and Last Day on Earth.  His work has appeared in GQ, Granta, Tin House, Zoetrope, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and The Best American Short Stories 2012 and 2017.  He has received a California Book Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A professor at Johns Hopkins, he lives in Baltimore with his wife, the novelist Katharine Noel, and their two children.