Antonya Nelson reads “Loneliness—concerning Enoch Robinson”
From Winesburg, Ohio (1919)
“It was past eleven o’clock that evening when Old Enoch, talking to George Willard in the room in the Heffner Block, came to the vital thing, the story of the woman and of what drove him out of the city to live out his life alone and defeated in Winesburg.”
Antonya Nelson is the author of four novels, including Bound, and five short story collections, including Female Trouble. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and, recently, the Rea Award for Short Fiction. She is married to writer Robert Boswell and holds the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston.
