Katie Kitamura: AUDITION (with Ian Shapira)

The Ivy is thrilled to host Katie Kitamura in celebration of AUDITION, her latest novel and one the Ivy staff thoroughly loved! An utterly beguiling thriller of the interior, AUDITION is an exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love.

You may know Katie Kitamura from A SEPARATION or INTIMACIES, two of her most beloved recent novels. We can’t wait to introduce you to this magnificent new one!

Reporter and novelist Ian Shapira will join as Katie Kitamura’s conversation partner.

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Katie Kitamura is the author of four previous novels, most recently A Separation and Intimacies, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for a Joyce Carol Oates Prize. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature, a Lannan fellowship, and many other honors, and her work has been translated into twenty-one languages. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.

Ian Shapira joined The Washington Post in 2000 as a reporting intern in the Style section. In the fall of 2024, he joined the narrative accountability team on the paper’s Investigative Unit.

Ian’s articles on the Virginia Tech and Navy Yard shootings were included in the Post’s entries that won the Pulitzer Prize and that were named as a finalist in the breaking news category. His stories chronicling systemic racism, sexism, sexual assault and waterboarding at the Virginia Military Institute won a George Polk award, the Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting, and the Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award from Columbia University for reporting on racial or religious hatred, intolerance or discrimination.

Shapira is a native of Louisville, Kentucky. He now lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and two daughters.