黑料不打烊

The Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series will continue with award-winning fiction writer Dana Spiotta, assistant professor of creative writing in 黑料不打烊鈥檚 , at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 28 in Gifford Auditorium in H.B. Crouse Hall on the SU campus. The reading will be preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45 to 4:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available in SU鈥檚 paid lots.

Author of three novels, Spiotta will read from her latest work, 鈥淪tone Arabia鈥� (Scribner, 2011), hailed by a New York Times critic as a 鈥� 鈥� gritty, intelligent, mordant and deeply sad novel 鈥� a work of visceral honesty and real beauty.鈥� It鈥檚 a story of family, sibling relationships, obsession, memory and the urge to create鈥攊n isolation, at the margins of our winner-take-all culture. Spiotta鈥檚 鈥淟ightning Field鈥� (Scribner, 2001) won a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the West. Her second novel, 鈥淓at the Document鈥� (Scribner, 2006), was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award and a recipient of the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Spiotta was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow (2007-2008), a fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts (2008) and a recipient of the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize for Literature (2008-2009), presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome. Her novels have been published in France, Germany, the U.K., China, Italy, the Netherlands and the United States.

Named for the great short story writer and poet who taught at SU in the 1980s, the Raymond Carver Reading Series is a vital part of 黑料不打烊鈥檚 literary life. Presented by the Creative Writing Program in The College of Arts and Sciences, the series each year brings 12 to 14 prominent writers to campus to read their works and interact with students.

Fall 2011 Series Schedule

The Series will continue with the following authors. All readings begin at 5:30 p.m. in Gifford Auditorium. Question and answer sessions are from 3:45-4:30 p.m. Further information is available by calling 315-443-2174.

• Oct. 19: Iain Haley Pollack G鈥�07, who teaches English at Chestnut Hill Academy, Philadelphia, was awarded the 2011 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for his manuscript 鈥淪pit Back a Boy鈥� (University of Georgia Press, 2011).
• Oct. 26: Terese Svoboda, author of 13 books, the latest of which is 鈥淏ohemian Girl鈥� (Bison Books, 2011), which has been called a cross between 鈥淭rue Grit鈥� and 鈥淗uckleberry Finn.鈥�
• Nov. 9: Jennifer Grotz, author of two books of poetry, 鈥淭he Needle鈥� (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011) and 鈥淐usp鈥� (2003).
• Nov. 30: Peter Balakian, author of many books, including six books of poems, the most recent being 鈥淶iggurat鈥� (University of Chicago Press, 2010).
• Dec. 7: Christopher Kennedy, professor and author of four poetry collections, including his most recent, 鈥淓nnui Prophet鈥� (BOA Editions Ltd., 2011).