Nora Lange

Nora performed on stage at Joe’s Pub in our January 2025 edition of Seriously Entertaining, speaking on the evening’s theme, “This Time Tomorrow.”

Nora Lange’s debut novel Us Fools is a Los Angeles Times best seller, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and is longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction. Nora’s writing has appeared in BOMB, Hazlitt, Joyland, American Short Fiction, Denver Quarterly, HTMLGiant, LIT, The Fairy Tale Review, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Brown University and is a fellow at USC’s Los Angeles Institute of the Humanities. She recently moved to Salt Lake City with her family.

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