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(10/7/2021) Lydia Peelle, fiction: 7 PM | 101 Buttrick Hall | Face masks required
Aug. 4, 2021—Lydia Peelle is a mother, writer, dancer and photographer. The Whiting Award-winning author of the novel The Midnight Cool and the story collection Reasons For and Advantages of Breathing, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice book which received an honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award and was a finalist for The Orion Book Prize,...
(9/30/2021) Deb Olin Unferth, fiction/nonfiction (virtual reading): 7 PM
Aug. 3, 2021—Deb Olin Unferth’s novels and short story collections are widely celebrated as wickedly comic and cutting edge. She is the author of six books of fiction and nonfiction. Her most recent book is the novel Barn 8 (Graywolf, 2020 ). Her other books include the graphic novel I, Parrot(Catapult 2017) in collaboration with the illustrator...
(9/23/2021) Carl Phillips, poetry: 7 PM | 101 Buttrick Hall | Face masks required
Aug. 2, 2021—Carl Phillips is the author of 15 books of poetry, most recently Pale Colors in a Tall Field (FSG, 2020). His other books include Wild Is the Wind (FSG, 2018), winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Publisher’s Weekly, in a starred review, called it “haunting and contemplative as the torch song for which...
(9/9/2021)Sheba Karim and Didi Jackson Reading: 7 PM | 101 Buttrick Hall | Face masks required
Aug. 1, 2021—September 9th, 7PM: Sheba Karim, Fiction & Didi Jackson, Poetry Sheba Karim is the author of the YA novels Skunk Girl, That Thing We Call a Heart, which made several Best Book lists including, Bank Street and Kirkus, and Mariam Sharma Hits the Road, which was named an NPR Best Book of the Year, and The Marvelous Mirza Girls (May 2021)....
Pallavi Wakharkar Wins 2021 Iowa Review Award for Fiction
Jun. 10, 2021—Congratulations to Pallavi Wakharkar on her reception of the 2021 Iowa Review Award for Fiction! Click here to see the announcement.
See Sandy Solomon’s New Poem in The New Yorker
Jun. 1, 2021—Congratulations to Sandy Solomon, whose poem, “The Great Confinement,” is featured in the June 7, 2021 issue of The New Yorker ! To read the poem and to enjoy the “Audio: Read by the author” feature on The New Yorker ‘s website, click here.