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Events
Events listed in white are at the bookshop; events listed in yellow are elsewhere.
All events are free & open to the public.
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- Thursday, November 2nd at 8:00 P.M.(Reading)
Lydia Davis will read as a part of the University of Massachusetts M.F.A. Program's Visiting Writer Series in Memorial Hall at the University of Massachusetts. Davis is translator of Maurice Blanchot, Proust, Michel Leiris & Michael Butor, among others. She is author of several volumes of short fiction, including
Samuel Johnson is Indignant,
Almost No Memory,
End of the Story, &
Break it Down. Rick Moody has said that she is the “best prose stylist in America.”
- Friday, November 3rd at 7:00 P.M.(Talk)
Japanese author
Tawada Yoko will talk in Thompson Hall 104 at the University of Massachusetts. Tawada is author of
The Bridegroom Was a Dog &
Where Europe Begins.
- Friday, November 3rd at 8:00 P.M.(Poetry reading)
David Roderick, alumnus of the M.F.A. Program at the University of Massachusetts returns triumphant with his award-winning first collection of poetry:
Blue Colonial. Roderick is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. His poems & stories have appeared in
32 Poems,
The Antioch Review,
The Hudson Review,
The Missouri Review, &
The Virginia Quarterly Review. James Tate, writing of Roderick, said his “poems are exquisitely made with language that is rich & precise. He convinces us that we are all pilgrims committing our acts of courage as well as our little crimes.”
Blue Colonial won the APR Honickman 1st Book Prize.
- Thursday, November 16th at 8:00 P.M.(Reading)
N. S. Köenings, who teaches writing at Hampshire College, will read from her recently published novel,
The Blue Taxi. Set in East Africa, the wonderful, funny debut novel is being compared to Zadie Smith & Monica Ali. Her short stories have appeared in
Story Quarterly &
Glimmer Train, & her novella
Setting Up Shop was released as a chapbook by the White Eagle Coffee Store Press.
- Friday, November 17th at 8:00 P.M.(Reading)
“Live Lit” Students in the M.F.A. Program at the University of Massachusetts will read from their recent work. Evenings usually include a mix of poetry & fiction. Tonight’s readers are Michael Carolan, Aaron Hellem, & Marie Buck.
- Thursday, November 30th at 8:00 P.M.(Reading)
Lisa Olstein &
Susan Steinberg will read as a part of the University of Massachusetts M.F.A. Program’s Visiting Writer Series in Memorial Hall at the University of Massachusetts. Olstein’s new volume of poetry,
Radio Crackling, Radio Gone, is a winner of the Hayden Carruth Award. Her poetry has appeared in
American Letters & Commentary,
Lit,
Crowd,
Prairie Schooner,&
The Iowa Review, among other journals. (
Read more!) Steinberg is author of two collections of stories,
The End of Free Love & more recently,
Hydroplane: Fictions. She is editor of
Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing, & has published in
Conjunctions,
The Gettysburg Review,
Boulevard, &
The Massachusetts Review. Both Olstein & Steinberg are graduates of the M.F.A. Program at the University of Massachusetts.