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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=4><b>SWING INTO
SPRING WITH</b><br>
<b>AN ORDINARY EVENING</b><br>
<b>READING SERIES</b><br>
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<font size=4><b>Ann Hood and Dana Kinstler </b><br>
<b>read Tuesday, April 29, 7-8pm </b></font><br>
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An Ordinary Evening in New Haven reading series roots for springtime with
a lively reading by Ann Hood and Dana Kinstler, fiction writers,
memorists and co-contributors to <i>Mr. Wrong: Real-Life Stories About
the Men We Used To Love,</i> on Tuesday, April 29, 7pm, at the Anchor
Bar's Mermaid Room (downstairs), 272 College Street at Chapel. <br><br>
"Mary showed up empty-handed. <br><br>
'I don't have anything with me,' she said, and she opened her arms to
indicate their emptiness. .....<br><br>
The woman nodded. 'I know,' she said, stepping back so that the door
swung wide open. 'I can't tell you how many people have stood right where
you're standing and said that exact thing.'"<br><br>
- opening lines of <i>The Knitting Circle </i>by Ann Hood<br><br>
*******<br><br>
"After lunch the client's children came into Bob Scheinman's
showcase with their mother, Mrs. Van der Brooks. He hovered over the
stack of inventory slips at my desk, holding an armload of starchy
organza, like a huge bouquet of yellow violets. Before greeting the
mother or her children, before handing the kids over to me, he whispered
in my ear, 'Poof dresses can get to you after a while.'<br><br>
'Even though you are the designer?' I sucked down an enormous gulp of
iced coffee.<br><br>
'Especially because I'm the designer.' He rolled his eyes while Mrs. Van
der Brooks waited outside in the carpeted hallway on a love
seat."<br><br>
- from "Coney Island in Winter" by Dana Kinstler<br><br>
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<b>Ann Hood</b> is the author, most recently, of the novel <i>The
Knitting Circle</i> and the forthcoming memoir, <i>Comfort: A Journey
Through Grief</i>. Her short stories and essays have appeared in <i>The
New York Times, Tin House, The Paris Review, Bon Appetit, Traveler,
</i>and many more publications. She has won two Pushcart Prizes, The Paul
Bowles Prize for Short Fiction, and a Best American Spiritual Writing
Award.<br><br>
<b>Dana Kinstler </b>won the Southern Indiana Review's fiction prize in
2007, and The Missouri Review Editor's prize in 2000. Her fiction has
been published in <i>Salamander Review </i>and the <i>Mississippi
Review.</i> Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in the <i>Stella
Magazine</i> section of the Sunday <i>London Telegraph</i>, and in the
anthologies: <i>My Father Married Your Mother: Writers Talk about
Stepparents, Stepchildren and Everyone in Between, Mr. Wrong, About
Face</i>, and <i>Feed Me. </i>She grew up in New York City and now lives
in the Hudson River Valley, New York, with her husband and two
daughters.<br>
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Ordinary Evening's Spring 2008 schedule winds up with a final reading
featuring novelist Wally Lamb and a tribute to poet Jason Shinder
(5/20). Please join us! <br>
<br>
Read writers' biographies, find links, send us an email, and more at
<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, Ordinary Evening features 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 in the Elm City to enjoy a little
written word 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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