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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><div align="center"><b>ORDINARY
EVENING READING SERIES<br>
WELCOMES WALLY LAMB AND REMEMBERS JASON SHINDER<br>
Tuesday, May 20, 7-8pm</b><br><br>
The Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room (downstairs)<br>
272 College Street at Chapel, (203) 865-1512<br>
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<br><br>
"That's what life's all about, Dolores," Ma said.
"Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off."
<br><br>
- Wally Lamb from
<i>She's Come Undone<br>
</i><br>
<br><br>
<br><br>
"…it is the only one<br><br>
I
could have found.<br><br>
<br><br>
I am <br><br>
the
only one<br><br>
who could have found it."<br><br>
- Jason Shinder
from his poem "Man Dressing," in <i>Among Women<br>
</i><br>
<br>
<br>
We at Ordinary Evening invite you to join us to hear Wally Lamb read from
his forthcoming book, <i>The Hour I First Believed</i>, preceded by a few
of Jason Shinder's poems in memory of the many gifts that he created
during his life. We mourn his passing in April after a long battle with
cancer and we celebrate the creativity and promise that abounds in his
work and in Wally's.<br><br>
<b> <br>
</b><br>
<b>Jason Shinder's </b>most recent poetry books are <i>Among Women
</i>and <i>Arrow Breaking Apart</i>. A recipient of 2007 poetry
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the
Massachusetts Council on the Arts, his poetry has appeared in the <i>New
Yorker</i>, <i>Paris Review</i>, and elsewhere. His other books include
<i>Best American Movie Writing</i>; <i>Writers on Therapy, The Poem That
Changed America</i>; <i>"Howl" Fifty Years Later</i>, and the
forthcoming <i>The Poem I Turn To: Actors, Directors & other
Moviemakers Present Poems That Inspire Them</i>. He was the
founder/director of the YMCA National Writer's Voice, YMCA Arts &
Humanities, and the Gibson Music International Program, and taught in the
graduate writing program at Bennington College. His work within the
filmmaking community included the directing of the Arts Writing Program
at Sundance Institute. <br><br>
<br>
<b>Wally Lamb's</b> third novel, <i>The Hour I First Believed</i>
(HarperCollins, forthcoming) explores chaos theory by interfacing several
generations of a fictional Connecticut family with such nonfictional
American events as the Civil War, Boston's 1942 Coconut Grove nightclub
fire, and the Columbine High School shootings of 1999. His first two
novels, <i>She's Come Undone</i> (Simon and Schuster/Pocket, 1992) and
<i>I Know This Much Is True</i> (HarperCollins/ReganBooks, 1998), were #
1 New York Times bestsellers, New York Times Notable Books of the Year,
and featured titles of Oprah's Book Club. Wally has also edited the
nonfiction anthologies <i>Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from
Our Imprisoned Sisters</i> (HarperCollins/ReganBooks, 2003) and <i>I'll
Fly Away</i> (HarperCollins, 2007), collections of autobiographical
essays that evolved from a writing workshop Lamb facilitates at
Connecticut's York Correctional Institute, a maximum-security prison for
women. He has served as a Connecticut Department of Corrections volunteer
from 1999 to the present. <br><br>
A Connecticut native, Wally holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in
teaching from the University of Connecticut and a Master of Fine Arts in
Writing degree from Vermont College. He has taught at Norwich Free
Academy and the University of Connecticut, where he directed the English
Department's creative writing program. <br><br>
Wally has received a host of awards, including the Connecticut Center for
the Book's Lifetime Achievement Award and Distinguished Alumni awards
from Vermont College and the University of Connecticut. He was the 1999
recipient of the New England Book Award for fiction. He and his wife,
Christine, are the parents of three sons, Jared, Justin, and
Teddy.<br><br>
<br><br>
<b>MARK YOUR CALENDARS<br>
</b><br>
This season's lineup offers an eclectic mix of poetry, fiction,
non-fiction and drama from local and further-flung writers. The
first reading of the Fall season, on Tuesday, September 18, will present
novelist and Ordinary Evening co-curator <b>Alice Mattison</b> and poet
<b>Cameron Gearon</b>. For biographies, links to work, and other
information, visit
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http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/</a>.<br>
<br><br>
<b>ABOUT THE ORDINARY EVENING SERIES <br>
</b><br>
Started in spring 2005, the
<a href="https://email.hbs.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=845d002fa9e244148a4e624ab0cd9df9&URL=http%3a%2f%2fordinaryevening.blogspot.com%2f">
Ordinary Evening Reading Series</a> 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 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>
<br>
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