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Living Writers Series
Beginning in Fall 2012 in conjunction with the ENGL 264 course, The Living Writers Series brings guest authors to the College to discuss their latest works. Students enrolled in the class read the books by the scheduled authors and then get to meet and engage these authors in a question and answer session followed by a public reading. The campus and the local communities are all invited to attend these extraordinary discussions.
Upcoming Schedule
Wednesday, February 13, 6:30 p.m.
Roos House
William Rhoden
Award-winning New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Forty Million Dollar Slaves and Third and A Mile: The Trials and Triumphs of The Black Quarterback, William C. Rhoden uses sports as a vehicle to understand an increasingly complex society.
Wednesday, March 27, 6:30 p.m.
Kingston Theater
Iain Haley Pollock
Iain Haley Pollock's first collection of poetry, Spit Back a Boy, won the 2010 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. New work recently appeared in the Poetry Society of America's "In Their Own Word" feature.
Wednesday, April 24, 6:30 p.m.
Kingston Theater
Siobhan Fallon
Siobhan Fallon is the author of You Know When the Men Are Gone, which was listed as a Best Book of 2011 by The San Francisco Chronicle, Self Magazine, Los Angeles Public Library, Janet Maslin of The New York Times, and won a 2012 Indies Choice Honor Award, the Texas Institute of Letters Award for First Fiction, and the 2012 Pen Center USA Literary Award in Fiction.
Past Speakers
Mary Karr
Mary Karr is most widely known for her best-selling memoirs, but regards herself primarily as a poet. She's a 2004 Guggenheim Fellow in poetry, and has written four volumes of verse, including "Sinners Welcome." Her most popular book to date is The Liar's Club, which remained on the New York Times Best Seller's List for more than a year. Her most recent book Lit: A Memoir, presents readers with the story of her alcoholism, recovery and conversion to Catholicism.
Daniel Torday
Daniel Torday's fiction and nonfiction works have appeared in Esquire Magazine, Glimmer Train, Harper Perennial's Fifty-Two Stories, the Harvard Review and the Kenyon Review. The Sensualist, winner of the 2012 National Jewish Book Awards' Goldberg Prize for Outstanding Debut Fiction, tells the tale of 17-year-old Samuel Gerson, who is ready to rid himself of the tight-knit Jewish community in which he's spent his whole life.
Adam Levin
Adam Levin is most noted for his dark and witty short work. Some reviewers have compared his writing to that of late literary great David Foster Wallace. Levin's latest work Hot Pink is a collection of short stories.
