The wealth of Hustvedt’s intellectual trespassing permeates this book
Thea Goodman is the author of a novel The Sunshine When She’s Gone (Henry Holt, 2013) a book about a marital crisis that ensues upon the birth of a first child. Her short story, “Evidence,” the title story of a collection in-progress, was chosen by The New York Public Library for Stories on The MTA, a Digital Archive, 2019. She’s published short fiction, essays, and poems in The New England Review, Catapult, The Rumpus, Columbia, The Penn Review, Other Voices, The Huffington Post and The Coachella Review, among other venues, and won a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, The Columbia Fiction Award and fellowships at Yaddo and The Ragdale Foundation. She was a visiting faculty member teaching creative Writing at The University of Chicago between 2016-2019 and is currently at work on a new novel.