Sunday, April 7, 3pm – Ian Bassingthwaighte, author of this year’s Wayland Reads novel, Live from Cairo, will read and discuss his book in the Library Rotunda.
Ian Bassingthwaighte is a 2009 Fulbright Grantee in Egypt, where he worked in a legal aid office that served refugees from Iraq, Sudan, and the Horn of Africa. He has been honored with Hopwood Awards for both novel writing and short fiction. He was also named as a finalist for the Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative.
Ian Bassingthwaighte’s fiction, non-fiction, and photography have appeared in Esquire, National Geographic, The Chicago Tribune, The Sun, The Southern Review, Tin House, TriQuarterly, and more. His stories were included on the “Distinguished Stories” list in the Best American Short Stories 2015 and the “Notable Nonrequired Reading” list in the Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015.
Live from Cairo is his first novel.