Jack Livings

Jack Livings

John Guare Writers Fund Rome Prize, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman
September 9, 2016–July 28, 2017
Profession
Writer, New York
Project title
Untitled Novel in Progress
Project description

While in Rome, I’ll be working on a novel set in New York during the blizzard of February 1978. The story focuses on the residents of a building on the Upper West Side—two families, in particular, whose intertwined histories are scrutinized by a narrator trying to assemble a working model of her own past. On the night of the blizzard, she experienced a strange act of communion, the examination of which she believes will help her cope with a more recent event, the death of her husband.