Acclaimed Writer Helen Schulman in Conversation with WOSU’s Kassie Rose!

Join Helen Schulman, New York Times bestselling author in an intimate conversation with Kassie Rose, Book Critic for NPR member station WOSU where the women will discuss , Schulman’s first story collection since 1988.

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WOSU PUBLIC MEDIA is Gramercy’s Community Partner for this program.

A virtuosic, laugh-out-loud collection of stories that explore the fraught and fantastic nature of human connection, Fools for Lovefeatures women, men, various couples, and one terribly precocious baby enmeshed in tangled romances of all shapes and sizes.

The wide-ranging and inventive stories that make up Helen Schulman’s Fools for Love are funny, sexy, sometimes sad, and always surprising. A single American mother and a French Orthodox rabbi fall in love over poetry, as she helps to dismantle a shuttered bookstore in Paris. A rebellious young woman marries a series of men who are all wrong for her and proceeds to cheat on each of them; her widowed mother finds her deceased husband’s sex diaries and decides she needs to make up for lost time. And in the title story, a blossoming East Village playwright realizes that her marriage to a brilliant actor is doomed, after watching his performance in an alternative production of Sam Shepard’s iconic play.

Characters wander in and out of one another’s stories—and beds—in these hilarious tales of lust and attachment—a rollicking feast of love and loss that is not unlike the experience of life itself. Fools for Love is a vital addition to Schulman’s acclaimed body of work—a collection that showcases at every turn what Katie Kitamura has referred to as her “sharp observation, buoyant wit, and unfailing empathy.”

Helen Schulman is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels, including Lucky Dogs, Come with Me, and This Beautiful Life. Schulman has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Sundance, Aspen Words, and Columbia University. She is a professor of writing and Fiction Chair at The New School and lives in New York City.

Kassie Rose is the book critic for WOSU 89.7 FM, an NPR member station broadcasting throughout Central Ohio, a position she has held for more than 25 years. In addition to reviews, she recommends books on WOSU All Sides Weekend Books with host Christopher Purdy. She has served as a Literature Advisory Panelist for the Ohio Arts Council and is a recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists Grant. An avid reader and book collector, Kassie is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and The Aldus Society, which is a local chapter of the national Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies. She writes about books on her blog, TheLongestChapter.com.

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