Writers in Camden: Adam O’Fallon Price

Adam O’Fallon Price 

Acclaimed author Adam O’Fallon Price will read from his work in the Rutgers-Camden’s Campus Center Multipurpose Room.

Adam O’Fallon Price is a writer, writing teacher, and musician living in Carrboro, NC. His first novel, The Grand Tour, was published by Doubleday Books in 2016, and his second novel, The Hotel Neversink, was published by Tin House Books in 2019 and won the 2020 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original. His short fiction has appeared in the Paris Review, Granta, Harper’s, VICE, and many other places.

Objects of Desire, Price’s debut short story collection forthcoming October 6, 2026, is filled with people driven by restless longings and unattainable desires—pushed to act by needs only half-understood—all the while picking up unintended bedfellows and conspirators: A resentful brother grapples with the responsibility of bone marrow donation for his dying sibling. A down-on-his-luck artist chases his dog through a cornfield and into the home of dangerous strangers. A college women’s soccer goalie takes her pain out on her opponents, as she struggles to process her childhood and forgive her mother. Price shows us how the aching, often desperate, pull of wanting can unsettle our lives. The characters in this collection are consistently reaching for something more, only to miss the mark in quiet but irreversible ways.

Free admission. Registration encouraged. Refreshments provided. Books available for purchase.

Writers in Camden

Writers in Camden is a long-running reading series on the Rutgers-Camden campus, inviting acclaimed novelists, poets, and nonfiction writers to share their work with students and the public.