Novelist and screenwriter Alissa Nutting will offer a reading as part of the Mary E. Rolling Reading Series. Free and open to the public, the reading will be presented at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 14, as a VIRTUAL event on Zoom.

Alissa Nutting is the author of the novels “Tampa” and “Made for Love” (a New York Times editor’s choice selection), as well as the story collection “Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls,” which won the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction. Her fiction and essays have appeared in publications such as Tin House, BOMB, Elle, Real Simple, BuzzFeed, and many others. She is an assistant professor of English and writer-in-residence at Grinnell College in Iowa.

Nutting has been called “one of the most daring writers in America,” and her writing described as“blisteringly smart, feverishly inventive, darkly comic and surreal.” Booklist characterized her 2017 novel “Made for Love” as “a sly satire of our tech- and prosperity-obsessed society.” An HBOMax television series based on “Made for Love,” co-written and produced by Nutting, premiered in April 2021 and is considered a current “must watch” according to many critics. Nutting’s newest project–an Adult Swim cartoon entitled “Teenage Euthanasia,” about a partially undead family that owns a Florida funeral home–was recently featured on Time Magazine’s list of five best new TV shows for September 2021.

Advance registration for this virtual event is required and can be accessed via Zoom (registration link). 

The Mary E. Rolling Reading Series is a program offered by Penn State’s Creative Writing Program in English. The series receives generous support from the College of the Liberal Arts; the Department of English; the Joseph L. Grucci Poetry Endowment; the Mary E. Rolling Lectureship in Creative Writing; and University Libraries. A full list of readings in the 2021-22 series, as well as links for livestreams and virtual readings, can be found at https://creativewriting.psu.edu/2021-22-reading-series/.