“Great Expectations” is a combination coming-of-age novel and roman à clef about 23-year-old David.
Author Vinson Cunningham speaks on stage during the 2019 New Yorker Festival on Oct. 13, 2019, in New York City. I first read Vinson Cunningham’s writing in the early fall of 2014, when I was serving as a judge for a writing contest sponsored by McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. We were looking for new columnists for the website, and contest entries required a short description of the column, three ideas for possible installments, and then one full example column.
As I recall, once Cunningham’s writing started to appear on McSweeney’s and the unique contours of his writing struck others the way it had us, he was quickly snapped up by larger publications that could afford to pay more, and we released him from his commitment with our blessing.
I’m making it sound like a thriller, but the novel is up to other stuff as David weaves through the present and past seeking to make sense of his life and the world around him, a largely absent and then deceased father, a powerful faith and ties to the church that he cannot help but question, his simultaneous attraction to and distrust of the rich and powerful he now moves among.
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