Lara Tupper

writer/crooner/teacher

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debut Novel

A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS

Screenplay

A Thousand and One Nights

adaptation (script), co-written with filmmaker Greg Eismin

fiction

OFF ISLAND

based on the life of Paul Gauguin

Memoir

SIX-WORD MEMOIRS on LOVE and HEARTBREAK

music

my debut EP

REVIEWS, A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS:

“A one-of-a-kind book, fascinating and honest.”

--Joan Silber, National Book Award nominee, Ideas of Heaven

"Wonderful and incisive, A Thousand and One Nights tells us in a new way what it means to be young and American. Tupper casts a keen, intelligent eye on the contemporary world, its multitude of fakeries and deceits, providing us with a witty, poignant, wholly worthwhile read."— Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout

"This is a moving and accomplished first novel.”
--Jim Shepard, 2007 National Book Award nominee, Like You'd Understand, Anyway

"Add [this] title to your must-read list."--The Sacramento Bee

"...shrewdly observed..."--The Boston Globe

"Funny and insightful and told in prose as resilient as Karla's spirit. Keep an eye on Lara Tupper; she is sure to go far." --Rebecca Oppenheimer, National Book Critics' Circle member

A Thousand and One Nights has been re-released as an e-book and paperback. Thanks, Untreed Reads.

untreed Reads

Cited as a "Great Summer Read"! (It's a great winter read too.)

Lara Tupper is the author of A Thousand and One Nights (Harcourt and Untreed Reads), an autobiographical novel about singers at sea, and Off Island, a fictional re-imagining of Paul Gauguin's messy marriage. With filmmaker Greg Eismin she co-wrote the screenplay adaptation of A Thousand and One Nights. Her work has appeared in Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak (Harper Perennial), The Believer, fivechapters and other literary magazines. She taught writing at Rutgers University for almost a decade and now presents workshops throughout Western Massachusetts. Lara is a proud member of the Authors Guild and the BMIFC (Barry Manilow International Fan Club). A jazz/pop singer, she has crooned in a number of Middle Eastern and Asian cities and now performs in the Berkshires. Please see MUSIC CALENDAR and WRITING CLASSES for her upcoming gigs, readings and workshops.

e-book and paperback cover from Untreed Reads 2015

Harcourt cover

"Both an off-kilter take on the conventional coming-of-age tale and a sly commentary on the underbelly of celebrity culture, this truly original book is basically uncategorizable—blissfully so."--Elle.com

"Funny and insightful and told in prose as resilient as Karla's spirit. Keep an eye on Lara Tupper; she is sure to go far." --Rebecca Oppenheimer, National Book Critics' Circle