In addition to writing for Time and The New York Times, Julavits has published four novels: “The Mineral Palace,” “The Effect of Living Backwards,” “The Uses of Enchantment,” and most recently “The Vanishers.”

“The Vanishers” features an observant and linguistically gifted narrator, a brilliant but remote father figure, and a large number of characters with convoluted names: Borka, Colophon, Alwyn, Irenke. Talking at the Center for Fiction, Julavits traced the novel’s genesis, in part, to her renewed interest in feminism.

Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Harper’s, Esquire, McSweeney’s Quarterly, the New York Times, and the Best American Short Stories.

In 2002, Julavits co-founded The Believer magazine, which quickly became a must-read for anyone with serious literary inclination. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a finalist for the Young Lions Literary Award.

She earned a BA from Dartmouth College and a MFA from the writing program at Columbia University, where she is currently an assistant professor. Born and raised in Maine, she lives in Manhattan with her husband, writer Ben Marcus, and their two children.

Copies of “The Vanishers” will be available for sale at the event through Apple Valley Books. For more information, call 207-377-8673 or visit baileylibrary.org.

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