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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><b>ORDINARY EVENING READING
SERIES<br>
FINAL FALL READING WELCOMES<br>
PLAYWRIGHT ROB ACKERMAN AND NOVELIST THOMAS GAVIN<br>
Tuesday, December 11, 7-8pm</b><br><br>
The Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room (downstairs) <br>
272 College Street at Chapel, (203) 865-1512<br><br>
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"STEVE. What are we doing?<br>
PATTY. You invited them.<br>
STEVE. Pomegranate seeds and beeswax candles and handmade Japanese
plates. This is work, it's just work, nothing but work. This is
insane." <br>
- opening lines of <i>Disconnect</i>, a play by Rob Ackerman<br><br>
"…a bareheaded old man in carpet slippers who wore a pair of
spectacles with the glass in one frame smashed to a blind star…wandered
from one clot of firemen to another and at last climbed the steps of a
house where Schlumberger could see flames jumping in a groundfloor window
like children wanting to see out." <br>
- from <i>Kingkill</i> by novelist Thomas Gavin<br><br>
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<b>Rob Ackerman </b>wrote <i>Tabletop</i> (2001 Drama Desk Award Winner
for Best Ensemble Performance) and <i>Disconnect</i> (produced in 2005 by
The Working Theater at Classic Stage Company). His first play, <i>Origin
of the Species</i>, was made into an award-winning feature film starring
Amanda Peet. Rob and his wife, author Carol Weston, live on the Upper
West side with their daughters Emme and Lizzi and a cat named Mike.<br>
<b><br>
Thomas Gavin</b> is the author of three novels. <i>Breathing Water</i>,
which won the Lillian Fairchild Award; <i>The Last Film of Emile
Vico;</i> and <i>Kingkill</i>, named a Notable Book by the American
Library Association and an "Editor's Choice" by <i>Time</i>
Magazine. His essays have appeared in <i>The Georgia Review</i>, <i>The
Writer's Chronicle, Best American Essays</i>, and other publications, and
have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. An excerpt from his novel in
progress, <i>Bridge of Lost Boys</i>, appeared in <i>Icarus: New Writing
from Around the World</i>. An emeritus professor of English at The
University of Rochester, Gavin has taught at Middlebury College and Delta
College, and at a number of writing seminars. He has received fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. <br>
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<b>MARK YOUR CALENDARS<br><br>
</b>The spring season is packed with surprises, as always, but you can
always count on an eclectic mix of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and drama
from local and further-flung writers. Look for our email about
readers for the first spring reading on Tuesday, January 22. For
biographies, links to work, and other information, visit
<a href="http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/">
http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/</a>.<br>
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<b>ABOUT THE ORDINARY EVENING SERIES</b><br><br>
Started in spring 2005, the Ordinary Evening Reading Series features both
emerging and established writers in a monthly reading at the Anchor Bar
Mermaid Room, downstairs. Borrowing its name from the poem "An
Ordinary Evening in New Haven" by Wallace Stevens, the series aims
to bring writers and audiences together in a no-fuss, informal
environment to enjoy a little storytelling on a work-night. Readings are
always on a Tuesday at 7pm, free of charge, both drinkers and teetotalers
welcome. <br><br>
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http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/</a><br>
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