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<font size=4>TAKE A BREAK FROM THE COLD WITH THE ORDINARY EVENING READING
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Tuesday, February 27, 7pm - Novelist Fred Dillen and Nonfiction Writer
Deirdre Bair<br><br>
Warm up this February in the very cozy Mermaid Room, downstairs at the
Anchor Bar & Restaurant, 272 College Street near Chapel. (203)
865-1512. This month we trade poetry for a foray into prose, guided by
novelist Fred Dillen and biographer / nonfiction writer Deirdre Bair.
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No cover charge; drinkers and teetotalers alike are welcome. <br><br>
<b>Frederick G. Dillen</b> is the author of two novels, <i>Hero</i> --
which was named the best first novel of its year by the Dictionary of
Literary Biography -- and <i>Fool</i>. A new novel has been optioned in
manuscript by an independent film producer. Fred has won an O.Henry Award
and has taught at Harvard and Emerson College. He lives in Cambridge with
the playwright and performer Leslie Harrell Dillen. They have two grown
daughters and a heartbreakingly old yellow dog with large ears.<br><br>
<b>Deirdre Bair</b>'s most recent book, <i>Calling it Quits: Late-Life
Divorce and Starting Over</i>, has just been published by Random House.
She is also the author of four biographies: <i>Samuel Beckett</i> (winner
of the National Book Award); <i>Simone de Beauvoir</i> (NY Times
"Best Books of the Year"; finalist: Los Angeles Times Book
Prize); <i>Anaïs Nin</i> (NY Times "Notable Books of the Year,"
BBC Arts 4 documentary); and <i>Jung: A Biography</i> (NY Times
"Notable Books of the Year," Los Angeles Times Book Prize
finalist, winner of the NAAP Gradiva Award for Best Biography of the
Year).<br><br>
Deirdre has been a literary journalist and tenured university professor
with a specialty in comparative literature and culture, and has held
fellowships and grants from many prestigious organizations, including the
Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations. She has also been a visiting
professor and writer in residence all over the world, and most recently,
at Bennington College. She divides her time between New York and New
Haven, Connecticut.<br><br>
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http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/</a><br>
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