The Greatest Story Ever Told (Novel), Fort Collins, CO
A novel about grief, faith, art, technology, and late capitalism in which Felix Frankl’s grief over his sister’s disappearance leads him into a web of international conspiracies.
“I hope for this novel to illuminate how storytelling – political, cultural, technological – is often used to exploit us, and how pain and shame leave us vulnerable to lies and conspiracy theories.”
Andrew Altschul is the author of the novels The Gringa, Deus Ex Machina, and Lady Lazarus. His work has appeared in Esquire, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, Fence, One Story, and anthologies including Best New American Voices and O. Henry Prize Stories. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford, he has received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, the Ucross Foundation, and the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers Conferences. Since 2012, he has been a contributing editor at ZYZZYVA. He teaches at Colorado State University and lives in Fort Collins with his wife, the writer Vauhini Vara, and their son.
Visit Andrew’s website: www.andrewaltschul.com