Alumni Book Club: Flat Earth with Anika Jade Levy

Alumni Engagement invites you to join our Alumni Book Club virtual series, highlighting Pratt alumni authors. We are featuring Anika Jade Levy, BFA Writing ‘17, in conversation with Peter West, Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Join the conversation about Levy’s new novel, “Flat Earth,” as well as her work as the founder and editor of “Forever Magazine.”

About the Book:

A young woman struggles with the artistic success of her more privileged, beautiful best friend in this ruthless portrait of the New York art scene in which relationships are transactional, men are vampiric, and women have limited time to trade on their youth, beauty, and talent—it’s Renata Adler’s “Speedboat” for the Adderall generation.

About the Speakers:

Anika Jade Levy, BFA Writing ‘17

Anika Jade Levy is a writer from Colorado. She is a founding editor of “Forever Magazine,” a contributor at “Playboy,” and teaches in the writing program at Columbia. Her fiction and criticism has appeared in “The Paris Review,” “Vogue,” “GQ,” “Interview Magazine” and dozens of other outlets. “Flat Earth” is her debut.

Peter West

Peter West joined Pratt as the Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences in the Summer of 2025. A scholar of nineteenth-century American literature and culture, he has published scholarly books and articles on topics such as moving panoramas, the history of slavery at Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave, and the connections between American romantic fiction and early mass journalism.

This event will be recorded.