Reif Larsen Talks About 'The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet'

Reif Larsen is the author of the much anticipated book 'The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, released May 7 through Random House. Watch to see what he has to say about his novel and check out the website at http://www.tsspivet.co.uk.

Twenty-eight-year-old Reif Larsen is a filmmaker,
teacher, and writer. He has shot a number of
documentaries in the US, UK, and Sub-Saharan
Africa about inner-city students working in the arts.
He has taught creative writing workshops all over
the country, including a Mormon ranch in Idahos
Snake River Valley.

Larsen went to Brown University and majored in
Educational Studies. While at Brown, he spent most
of a year teaching at Maru-a-Pula school in
Gaborone, Botswana, and he remains on their
American board of trustees. In 2008, he organised
a U.S. tour of the Maru-a-Pula school marimba
band in order to raise funds for AIDS orphan
scholarships.

After college, Larsen worked for a year in several schools across England as part of an
international linguistic research team, measuring the effect that artists, working in long
term partnership with a school, had on a student's language.

Larsen currently teaches at Columbia University, where he is finishing his MFA in
fiction. He lives in Brooklyn.

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