Fiction alumna Ari Braverman '17 announces her first book, The Ballad of Big Feeling, acquired by Melville House, is forthcoming.
The novel is a stunning debut about a woman's often awkward interplay between her mind and body by award-winning writer Braverman. It has been hailed by novelist and Columbia faculty member Ben Marcus as "hilarious and insightful." In The Ballad of Big Feeling a woman’s relationship to her body unfolds in a series of carnal vignettes, told with strange and intimate humor, that force us to contend with the imagined spaces and real interactions that so often breed discomfort. The novel was pitched in the vein of Miranda July and Claire-Louise Bennett to Melville House’s Michael Barron.
Braverman is the winner of the 2012 James Knudsen Prize in Fiction and a finalist for the 2017 White Review Short Story Prize. Her work has appeared in Interviews from the Edge, Guernica, Bomb, and elsewhere. She has worked as an assistant editor at Conjunctions and received her MFA from Columbia University.