Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker is a former book editor at Simon & Schuster, and the author of The Age of Miracles. She is the recipient of the 2011 Sirenland Fellowship as well as a Bomb Magazine fiction prize. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband.

5 Best ‘What If?’ Books

The End

What if we were all blind? What if we lived on Mars? Karen Thompson Walker, author of the debut novel The Age of Miracles, which imagines the Earth’s rotation slowing, picks her favorite books that envision our world having undergone a great change. Plus, more 'Book Bags' from Jennifer Egan, Hilary Mantel, and Terry Eagleton.

Karen Thompson Walker

Published Jul. 03, 2012