Bird: Eric Puchner, DREAM STATE

Bird in Hand is thrilled to host the launch event for Eric Puchner’s “thrillingly ambitious” new novel, DREAM STATE! Danielle Evans, author of THE OFFICE OF HISTORICAL CORRECTIONS, will join him in conversation about this novel of friends and family, humor and heart. Set in a rapidly warming Montana, it’s both a love letter and an elegy to the American West, and an ode to the power of friendship, the weird weather of marriage, and the beauty of impermanence.

Following the conversation, stick around for refreshments and the chance to have your book signed. We hope you can join us.

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ERIC PUCHNER is the author of the story collection Music Through the Floor, a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award; the novel Model Home, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in Fiction; and a second short story collection, Last Day on Earth. His short stories and personal essays have appeared in GQ, Granta, Tin House, Best American Short Stories, and more. He has received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is an associate professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Baltimore with his wife, the novelist Katharine Noel, and their two children.

DANIELLE EVANS is the author of two short story collections, The Office of Historical Corrections and Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self. Her first collection won the PEN American Robert W. Bingham Prize, the Hurston-Wright award for fiction, and the Paterson Prize for fiction; her second won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and was a finalist for The Aspen Prize, The Story Prize, The Chautauqua Prize, and The Los Angeles Times Book prize for fiction. She has also been awarded The New Literary Project Oates Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a US Artists Fellowship. Her stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies including four editions of The Best American Short Stories. She is an Associate Professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.