Erin Swan: How a First Novel About America's Vanished Earth Took 6 Years to Write and 30 Years to Plan

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Erin Swan: How a First Novel About America's Vanished Earth Took 6 Years to Write and 30 Years to Plan

Andrew Keen

May 31, 2022

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

In this episode, Andrew is joined by Erin Swan, author of Walk the Vanished Earth.

Erin Swan is a writer of fiction and nonfiction whose work has been published in such literary journals as Portland Review, The South Carolina Review, and Inkwell Journal. A graduate of the MFA program at the New School, she lives in Brooklyn and teaches English at a public high school in lower Manhattan. This is her first novel.

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