AG Literary Events
Thursday, July 9, 2026
5:00 pm-7:00 pm Eastern
Pascal Hall, 86 Pascal Ave, Rockport, Maine
The Pascal Hall Authors Series, presented in partnership with the Lesher Family Foundation and Maine Media Workshops + College, brings free literary events to the community in Rockport, ME each summer.
Susan Choi is the author most recently of Flashlight, shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize, long listed for the 2025 National Book Award, and named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Economist, The Financial Times, The New Yorker, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, among others. Her previous novels are The Foreign Student, American Woman, A Person of Interest, My Education, and Trust Exercise, which received the 2019 National Book Award for fiction. She teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Roxana Robinson is the author of eleven books—seven novels, three collections of short stories, and the biography of Georgia O’Keeffe. Four of these were chosen as New York Times Notable Books, two as New York Times Editors’ Choices.Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Best American Short Stories, The Southampton Review, Ep!phany and elsewhere. Her work has been widely anthologized and broadcast on NPR. Her books have been published in England, France, Germany, Holland and Spain. Robinson has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation and the MacDowell Colony, and she was named a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library. Robinson has served on the Boards of PEN and the Authors Guild, and was the president of the Authors Guild. She has received the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers Award,” given by Poets and Writers, and the Award for Distinguished Service to the Literary Community from the Authors Guild. She teaches in the MFA Program at Hunter College. She lives in New York City and northwestern Connecticut.
