AUTHOR TALK APRIL 4: Eric Puchner
Join us at the Library for a conversation with Eric Puchner author of the novel Dream State, which was an Oprah pick and a New York Times bestseller, and was named a best book of 2025 by The Guardian, London Times, BBC, Lit Hub, New York Post, and others.
DATE: Saturday, April 4, 2026
TIME: 5:00 pm
Light refreshments will be provided.
Spanning fifty years and set against the backdrop of a rapidly warming Montana, Dream State explores what it means to live with the mistakes of the past—both our own and the ones we’ve inherited. Written with humor, precision, and enormous heart, both a love letter and an elegy to the American West – a thrillingly ambitious ode to the power of friendship, the weird weather of marriage, and the beauty of impermanence.
Eric’s other books include the novel Model Home, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the story collections Last Day on Earth and Music Through the Floor. His stories and personal essays have appeared in GQ, Granta, McSweeney’s, The Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. He has received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. An associate professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, he lives in Baltimore with his wife, the novelist Katharine Noel, and their two children.
Presented in collaboration with Lighthouse Works as part of the Harry S. Parker III Visiting Artist Program, which brings distinguished writers and artists to Fishers Island to engage with Lighthouse Works Fellows and the Island community.
