Emma Copley Eisenberg | Housemates: A Novel

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In conversation with Jennifer Wilson

Emma Copley Eisenberg is the author of The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia, the chronicle of a long-reverberating 1980 double murder in a remote area of West Virginia. A New York Times Notable Book, it was nominated for an Edgar Award, a Lambda Literary Award, and an Anthony Award, among other honors. Her short fiction has appeared in such periodicals as Granta, McSweeney’s, Slate, and Tin House, and she is the cofounder of the Philadelphia-based Blue Stoop, a community hub for the literary arts. A celebration of queer life, art, and chosen family amidst the turmoil of contemporary America, Eisenberg’s debut novel follows two housemates on a road trip through rural Pennsylvania.

Jennifer Wilson is a contributing writer at The New Yorker. Previously, she was a contributing essayist at the New York Times Book Review covering trends in contemporary fiction. In 2022, she received the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle. In 2024, she was awarded the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism. She has a Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literatures and frequently writes about books by writers from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, as well as the relationship between culture and political economy. She regularly teaches cultural reporting and criticism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

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