Distinguished Writers Series: "An Evening of Student Poetry"

Wesleyan's Writing's Distinguished Writers Series Presents "An Evening of Student Poetry" featuring the 2008 Wesleyan Student Poets: Susanna Myrseth '09 (Wesleyan's Connecticut Poetry Circuit Student Poet), Claire Greenwood '09, Michael Savard '12, Eric Weiskott '09, visiting poet Erica Kaufman and the 2008 Connecticut Poetry Circuit Student Poets.

What: An Evening of Student Poetry
When: Thursday, March 26th at 8 PM
Where: Russell House (380 High Street)

This Week's Distinguished Writer: André Aciman

Visiting Creative Writing Professor André Aciman will give a public reading this Wednesday as part of Wesleyan's Distinguished Writers Series.

André Aciman is the author of the novel Call Me By Your Name and the nonfiction works Out of Egypt: A Memoir and False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory. He is co-author and editor of The Proust Project and Letters of Transit. He has received a Whiting Writer’s Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and The New York Public Library’s Center for Scholars and Writers. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and The New York Review of Books, and his pieces appear in several annual collections of the Best American Essays.

What: André Aciman Distinguished Writers Lecture
When: Wednesday, March 25th at 8 PM
Where: Russell House (380 High Street)

This week's Distinguished Writer: Carlo Rotella

Carlo Rotella '86 will give a public reading this Wednesday as part of Wesleyan's Distinguished Writers Series.

Rotella is the author of October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature, Good With Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt, and, most recently, Cut Time: An Education at the Fights, which received the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

He writes for The New York Times Magazine, Washington Post Magazine, Boston, and Slate. His work has also appeared in Harper’s and Best American Essays, among others. He has received a Whiting Writers Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Howard Foundation Fellowship, a Du Bois Fellowship, and grants from the State Department for lecture tours in Bosnia and China. He co-edits the Chicago Visions and Revisions series at the University of Chicago Press, and he is Director of American Studies and Professor of English at Boston College.

What: Carlo Rotella Distinguished Writers Lecture
When: Wednesday, February 25th at 8 PM
Where: Russell House

This week's Distinguished Writer: Amy Bloom '75

Amy Bloom '75, the 2009 Jacob Julien Visiting Writer, will give a public reading tomorrow as part of Wesleyan's Distinguished Writers Series.

From the moment she started publishing fiction, Amy Bloom '75 has been the recipient of major awards. Her first story, Silver Water, won the National Magazine Award. She is the author of the novel A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, a collection of short stories entitled Come to Me, and the nonfiction work Normal. Her most recent novel, Away, was a New York Times bestseller. Praised as a writer of rare humor, insight, grace, and eloquence, Bloom has been nominated for the National Books Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and numerous anthologies here and abroad, and she has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic.

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What: Amy Bloom Distinguished Writers Lecture
When: Wednesday, February 18th at 8 PM
Where: Russell House

For more information on Bloom, check out her website.

This week's Distinguished Writer: Rebecca Brown

Who is Rebecca Brown?

"If Samuel Beckett were a woman in late- 20th century America," one critic has noted, "he might have written stories like Brown's."

Rebecca Brown’s thirteenth book is a collection of eclectic essays in cultural criticism entitled American Romances. Her other works of fiction and nonfiction include The Terrible Girls, The Gifts of the Body, Annie Oakley's Girl, The Last Time I Saw You, The End of Youth, and Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary. Her writing has appeared in anthologies including Queer 13: Lesbian and Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade (edited by Wesleyan Visiting Writer Clifford Chase) and has been translated into Japanese, German, Italian, Norwegian, and Dutch. A frequent collaborator, she has written numerous texts for dance. Woman in Ill Fitting Wig is a book-length collaboration with painter Nancy Kiefer. She has recently co-edited Looking Together, anthology of writers’ responses to work at the Frye Art Museum, which the University of Washington Press will publish in spring 2009.

What: Rebecca Brown - novelist, teacher, activist

When: Wednesday, February 11 at 8pm

Where: Russell House

Andre Aciman at Russell House

Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, Distinguished Writers/New Voices brings you:

André Aciman
Monday, February 25, 8:00 PM
The Russell House

Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Andre Aciman is the author of Out of Egypt: A Memoir, False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory, the recent novel Call Me By Your Name, and the co-author and editor of The Proust Project and Letters of Transit. Aciman is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as a fellowship from The New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and The New York Review of Books. Aciman's pieces appear in several annual collections of The Best American Essays. He is a leading scholar of Marcel Proust, and currently teaches comparative literature at the City University of New York.

Free of charge and open to the public.