Reliable Narrator

Talty’s first book, Night of the Living Rez, includes a short story he wrote at Dartmouth in 2015. The book won the 2022 New England Book Award for Fiction, was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2022 by the New York Times, and is now a finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. In a Q&A with Nicole Chung of The Atlantic, Talty talks about his writing process and what he is working on next.