Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Rivka Galchen


Atmospheric Disturbances

I have recently become obsessed with video book trailers, and had to share the link to this sweet one, I stumbled upon today. This is an impressive debut from a new novelist that has been compared to Proust and Pynchon. A must read! 

About the Author
Rivka Galchen received her MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, having spent a year in South America working on public health issues. Galchen recently completed her MFA at Columbia University, where she was a Robert Bingham Fellow. Her essay on the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics was published in The Believer, and she is the recipient of a 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Galchen lives in New York City. This is her first novel. (Powell's Books)
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