Best American Essays 2021
Megan Harlan's essay, "This 5,000 Year Old House," is listed as a notable essay of the year in Best American Essays 2021. The essay was originally published in the literary nonfiction journal, River Teeth.
MOBILE HOME Wins Gold IPPY in Creative Nonfiction
MOBILE HOME wins the Gold Medal in the 2021 Independent Book Publisher Award for Creative Nonfiction!
MOBILE HOME Nominated for Northern California Book Award
MOBILE HOME: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS was nominated for the 40th Annual Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction (2021) along with works by Rebecca Solnit, Kay Ryan, Joan Frank, and Elizabeth Tallent. In their nomination statement, the Northern California Book...
Booklist: Review of MOBILE HOME
Booklist reviewer Courtney Eathorne wrote of MOBILE HOME (in a review posted in April 2021): "In this fascinating and lyrical memoir, Harlan examines the psychology of place by sharing her experiences as a child living in 17 different homes around the world...Harlan...
The Missouri Review: Sam Pickering reviews MOBILE HOME
In The Missouri Review's "Collected in 2020: Recent Essay and Story Collections of Note" (Winter 2020 issue), Samuel Pickering calls Mobile Home "personal and provocative" and writes, "Readers follow Harlan's footsteps and...they discover traces of themselves,...
AWP Conference Featured Presenter
Megan Harlan is a Featured Presenter at the 2021 AWP Conference Awards Reading.
AWP Panel: At Home and Out of Place
AWP 2021 Panel: At Home and Out of Place (Panelists: Anne Goldman, Megan Harlan, Patrick Madden, Angela Morales) What does it mean to feel at home in a place—in the mind, in a family, in the U.S., across the Americas, and across the seas? Many of us have at times felt...
The New York Times Book Review: Review of MOBILE HOME
The New York Times Book Review reviews MOBILE HOME ("Essays on Home, Culture, and Everything in Between" by Lori Soderlind): "Harlan and her family moved 17 times while she was a child, following her father’s work as an engineer across four continents. Impermanence...
New Books Network podcast: Zoë Bossiere interviews Megan Harlan about MOBILE HOME
Zoë Bossiere, a host of New Books Network's Literature podcast, interviewed Megan about MOBILE HOME.
Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books podcast: Zibby Owens interviews Megan Harlan about MOBILE HOME
Zibby Owens, host of the Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books podcast, talked with Megan about MOBILE HOME.