Anthony Marra is the author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, which won the National Book Critics Circle’s inaugural John Leonard Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction, and the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, and which appeared on over twenty year-end lists. Marra’s novel was a National Book Award longlist selection, as well as a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and France’s Prix Médicis. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His story collection, The Tsar of Love and Techno, is forthcoming from Hogarth.
Anthony Marra
Articles by Anthony Marra
Tuesday September 23
From A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
The designation 02 was stenciled above the truck bumper in white paint, meaning it belonged to the Interior Ministry, meaning there would be no record of the arrest, meaning Dokka had never officially been taken, meaning he would never come back.