Jane Kaczmarek is best known for her role as Lois on Malcolm in the Middle, for which she received 7 consecutive Emmy nominations as well as nominations for the Golden Globe and SAG awards. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin and Yale School of Drama, Kaczmarek made her television debut on The Paper Chase and Hill Street Blues. On stage, she has appeared on Broadway and off, and for 6 seasons at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Her recent theater credits include Long Day's Journey Into Night with Alfred Molina and in a co-production of Our Town with Deaf West Theatre and the 2023 Tony Award–winning Pasadena Playhouse. Kaczmarek can currently be seen in The Changeling on AppleTV+, starring LaKeith Stanfield, and the short film Now I Lay Me Down, which was screened at the Santa Barbara Film Festival in February. Her favorite job is raising her three kids and reading/hosting Selected Shorts across America.
Hettienne Park is best known for her role as Beverly Katz on Hannibal and Tamika Collins on Stephen King's The Outsider. Her additional screen credits include Don’t Look Up, written and directed by Adam McKay, Gossip Girl, The OA, Blacklist, High Maintenance, Bride Wars, Damages, The Good Wife, Young Adult, Blindspot, 9-1-1: Lonestar, Prodigal Son, Law & Order, and more. Park appeared on Broadway in Seminar with Alan Rickman and off-Broadway in Tony Kushner's The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, earning her a Theatre World Award, honoring her outstanding debuts both on and off Broadway. Park will appear on HBO Max in The Girls On The Bus, inspired by the book Chasing Hillary by New York Times journalist Amy Chozick.
Evelyn Waugh (1903 – 1966), whom Time magazine called "one of the century's great masters of English prose," wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, short stories, and journalism. Three of his novels, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited, were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.
Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, The Interestings, The Ten-Year Nap, and The Wife, which was adapted to film in 2018, starring Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce. She was the guest editor of The Best American Short Stories 2017, and has also published books for young readers, mostly recently a picture book, Millions of Maxes. Wolitzer is a faculty member in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton, where she co-founded and co-directs BookEnds, a one-year, non-credit intensive in the novel.
Esther Yi was born in Los Angeles in 1989 and currently lives in Leipzig, Germany.
CREDITS
“Moon,” by Esther Yi, from The Best American Short Stories 2023 (Mariner Books, 2023) and Y/N by Esther Yi, copyright © 2023 by Esther Yi. First appeared in The Paris Review (Issue 240, Summer 2022). Adapted version of the text used by permission of Astra Publishing House.
“Love in the Slump,” by Evelyn Waugh, from The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh (Little, Brown and Company, 2012). First published as “The Patriotic Honeymoon” (Harper’s Bazaar, 1932). Copyright © 1932 by Evelyn Waugh. Used by permission of TK.
