Amy Fusselman

“One of our best interrogators of how we live now, and how we should live. As always, Fusselman asks tough questions and answers them with rare lyricism and candor.”—Dave Eggers

Author and Ohio State alumna Amy Fusselman reads from her new book, Idiophone, in the Wexner Center Store. Bridging such topics as ballet, quilting, death, and queerness, Fusselman’s freewheeling, strikingly original essay is, among many other things, an unabashedly honest meditation on creativity, motherhood, and addiction. The author signs copies in the store after the reading; the book was published this July by Coffee House Press.

Amy Fusselman is a writer, artist, and publisher based in New York City. In addition to her three books of nonfiction—Savage Park: A Meditation on Play, Space, and Risk for Americans Who Are Nervous, Distracted, and Afraid to Die (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015); The Pharmacist’s Mate (McSweeney’s, 2001); and 8: All True Unbelievable (Counterpoint Press, 2007)—Fusselman’s writing has appeared in ARTnews, The Atlantic, The Believer, and the New York Times. During her undergraduate years at Ohio State (BA, 1986), Fusselman played in the Bread Group, one of several celebrated Columbus bands in an era that included The Great Plains, The Gibson Brothers, and Scrawl.