Take a Literary Lunch Break with Maria Reva via Instagram Live (5/29)
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Maria Reva, author of GOOD CITIZENS NEED NOT FEAR: Stories (Doubleday), will be featured at Texas Book Festival’s Literary Lunch Break via Instagram Live on Friday, May 29 at 1:30pm (ET).
A brilliant and bitingly funny collection of stories united around a single crumbling apartment building in Ukraine, GOOD CITIZENS NEED NOT FEAR tacks from moments of intense paranoia to surprising tenderness and back again, exploring what it is to be an individual amid the roiling forces of history. Inspired by her and her family’s own experiences in Ukraine, Reva brings the black absurdism of early Shteyngart and the sly interconnectedness of Anthony Marra’s Tsar of Love and Techno to a “bang-on brilliant” (Miriam Toews) collection that is “fearless and thrilling” (Bret Anthony Johnston), and as clever as it is heartfelt.
Reva was born in Ukraine and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has an MFA in fiction from the Michener Center at the University of Texas. Her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories (2017 and 2019), McSweeny’s and Granta. She currently lives in Austin, Texas, and also works as an opera librettist.
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