“…Startlingly original…” —ALEXANDER CHEE, Paris Review
“The Shame is a delicious, important, moral corrective of a novel.” —SHEILA HETI
“Makenna Goodman writes with blazing clarity and admirable wit."—JENNY OFFILL
"The Shame impresses one with its intelligence and artistry.” —SUSAN MINOT
"…wickedly smart, wry, raw..." —HELEN PHILLIPS
“Very funny and gutting.”―LAUREN GROFF
MAKENNA GOODMAN is a writer and editor. She is the author of a novel The Shame (Milkweed Editions, 2020), which was named a Harvard Review Favorite Book of 2020, a White Review Recommended Read, a Refinery29 Best New Book, a Literary Hub Recommended Read, a Bustle Most Anticipated Book, a Boston.com Book Club Pick, and more. The Shame has been translated into Farsi, and is in its fourth printing in Iran.
Goodman has written literary criticism, essays, interviews, and short fiction for international publications including the New York Review of Books, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, Catapult, Harvard Review, the White Review, BOMB, The Common, and ASTRA Magazine.
Goodman has been interviewed in the Paris Review Daily, Guernica, The Rumpus, The Millions, EcoTheo, and on NPR and the Commonplace Podcast, among others.
Watch Goodman in conversation with Booker Prize finalist Rachel Cusk here. Read her interview with Alexander Chee in the Paris Review Daily here. Read her BOMB interview with Booker Prize finalist Mieko Kawakami here. Read her ASTRA Magazine interview with the painter Celia Paul here and National Book Award Winner Vigdis Hjorth here. Read a work of her original short fiction in the White Review here; Read an original essay in the New York Review of Books here.
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