Posts By: Elliott Holt

Selected Shorts at New York Theatre Workshop

Academy Award nominee Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone, Birdman, The Wire) read a story I wrote at a special Selected Shorts event, curated by Josh Radnor, on February 23. The recording will be broadcast on Selected Shorts.

Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed

I wrote one of the sixteen essays in Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids,  edited by Meghan Daum, and forthcoming (March 31, 2015) from Picador. Of the collection, Publishers Weekly says, “Some entries are heart-wrenching—especially Elliott Holt’s ‘Just an Aunt’—while others are downright hilarious.”

The Literary United States

Brooklyn Magazine’s “Map of the Best Book for Every State” includes You Are One of Them as the book that best represents Washington, D.C. 

PEN/Faulkner Gala in Washington, D.C.

I’ll be reading an original piece at the PEN/Faulkner Gala at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. Other writers who will be reading at the gala include: Isabel Wilkerson, Piper Kerman, Adelle Waldman, Mitchell Jackson, Ishmael Beah, David Baldacci, Rachel Pastan, Benjamin Alire Saenz, and Madison Smartt Bell.