Molly Antopol.

There is no propaganda engine like the internet; it has been used as a tool for manipulating the public by governments, corporations, and special interests since its inception. It is only natural that writers would explore and push back against this phenomenon in their literary work. This year we will be exploring this topic in our panel, Department of Disinformation, and we’re thrilled that acclaimed writer Molly Antopol will be joining us to discuss it.

Molly Antopol’s debut story collection, The UnAmericans, won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award and was a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. The book was longlisted for the National Book Award and a finalist the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, the National Jewish Book Award and the California Book Award, among others. She’s the recipient of a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard and a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford, where she currently teaches. She lives in San Francisco, and is at work on a novel, The After Party, which will also be published by Norton.