Emily Greenberg: Alternative Facts

Thursday, May 29 at 2:30 PM on KPFK: My guest is Emily Greenberg, author of a debut short story collection, Alternative Facts, one of the most remarkable literary, political, and sociologically urgent --- not to mention funny and smart --- books I’ve read lately. Inspired in part by the writing of Thomas Pynchon, by what passes for reality, and offering a media and political critique of our post-truth moment, it’s if the Zeitgeist had offered Greenberg a writing prompt, to which she carefully, elegantly, almost scientifically responded. In seven short stories, we are reminded of and challenged to reconsider “real” people and events, including Kellyanne Conway, George W. Bush, B.F Skinner, and the false emergency alert of a nuclear attack on Hawaii. Her work has appeared widely. Lately Greenberg compiles the online “Lest We Forget the Horrors” series for McSweeney’s.

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