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<font face="verdana" size=3>The Department of English has been privileged
this year to welcome a new colleague, the distinguished novelist Caryl
Phillips. He will be giving a reading next Monday afternoon,
October 24, at 4:30pm, at St. Anthony Hall (corner of Wall and College
Streets). This is an exceptional opportunity to meet our newest
member, and to hear an extraordinary writer.<br><br>
Mr. Phillips will be reading from his most recent novel, <i>Dancing in
the Dark</i>, just published this month, a moving and coruscating account
of racial attitudes in turn-of-the-century America. It is his
eighth novel, and earlier novels have won the Commonwealth Prize and been
short-listed for both the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics
Circle award. In addition, he has written three books of
non-fiction, edited two anthologies, written for the radio and
television, the stage, and the screen (notably for the
Merchant-Ivory film, The Mystic Masseur). As <i>Time</i> magazine
has written, "Not only is he one of the most accomplished
black novelists writing in English, but he is fast becoming known
as one of the most productive all-around men of letters
anywhere."<br><br>
Please join us for what promises to be an exciting afternoon. The
reading is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be
served.<br>
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