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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN style='font-size:13.5pt'>STORIES
FOR A NOVEMBER NIGHT: ORDINARY EVENING READING SERIES PRESENTS FICTION WRITERS
ELIZABETH EDELGLASS AND MARTHA SOUTHGATE</span><span lang=EN> <br>
Tuesday, November 18, 7pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang=EN> Brush the leaves from your hair and join us as the
Ordinary Evening Reading Series presents the stories of Elizabeth Edelglass and
Martha Southgate at <b>7 PM </b>on <b>Tuesday, November 18</b> in the Mermaid
Room, downstairs at The Anchor Bar, 272 College St. in New Haven. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN> "'Men,
all talk or none,' Fanny said, lifting her face with a crooked smile. 'And us,
never satisfied…But Al's okay, I guarantee…Mine, on the other hand, such a
talker, every other day saying he gonna leave his wife.'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN>'What
if this time he means it?' Ruth glimpsed the envelope on the tabletop between
them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN>'If...if…'
Fanny reapplied her lipstick right there at the table, a deep red the color of
Shabbos wine. 'If my grandmother had a beard, she'd be my grandfather.'"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN>--Elizabeth
Edelglass, "What Was Hers," <i>New Haven Review</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN>"It
was 1972. There were at least fifty beautiful girls in the room.
Everywhere you looked there was another young woman, each face a different
brown, here the color of a puppy's eyes, there the color of a fallen acorn, all
so heartbreaking. And for once, not afraid. There was something
about these women, these new young women, that made you think that something
must be changing, that the time had come to start giving to pretty black women,
not taking from them."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN> --Martha
Southgate, <i>Third Girl From The Left</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang=EN> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Short
stories by <b>Elizabeth Edelglass</b> have appeared in journals including <i>Michigan
Quarterly Review</i> (winner of the Lawrence Foundation Prize), <i>Lilith</i>
(winner of their short story contest), <i>American Literary Review</i> (second
prize winner in their short fiction contest), <i>Passages North</i> (nominated
for Best New American Voices), <i>New Haven Review</i>, <i>Peregrine</i>, <i>Kalliope</i>,
and others. Her story "Floating Away" won the William Saroyan
Centennial Prize and is forthcoming in the Saroyan Society journal <i>In The
Grove</i>. She has been a Fiction Fellow of the Connecticut Commission on the
Arts and has been a finalist or semi-finalist for an assortment of national
writing awards, including finalist in two <i>Glimmer Train</i> short story
contests. She will read a selection from her work in progress, <i>The Same Map</i>,
a collection of connected stories that explores inner conflict along with
family strife as an extended Jewish American family advances from the immigrant
experience in 1924 Newark to assimilated lives in post-9/11 Connecticut, with
travels along the way to the Midwest, California, and Hasidic Brooklyn.
Elizabeth is the Director of the Department of Jewish Education Library of
Greater New Haven, located at the Jewish Community Center in Woodbridge. <br>
<br>
<b>Martha Southgate</b> is the author of <i>Third Girl from the Left,</i> which
was published in paperback by Houghton Mifflin in September 2006. It won the
Best Novel of the Year award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association
and was shortlisted for both the PEN/Beyond Margins Award and the
Hurston/Wright Legacy award. Her previous novel, <i>The Fall of Rome</i>,
received the 2003 Alex Award from the American Library Association and was
named one of the Best Novels of 2002 by Jonathan Yardley of the <i>Washington
Post</i>. She is also the author of <i>Another Way to Dance</i>, which won the
Coretta Scott King Genesis Award for Best First Novel. She received a 2002 New
York Foundation for the Arts grant and has received fellowships from the
MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Bread Loaf
Writers Conference. Her non-fiction articles have appeared in <i>The New York
Times Magazine</i>, <i>O</i>, <i>Premiere</i>, and <i>Essence</i>. She was the
Associate Chair of the Writing Department at Eugene Lang College at New School
University, and has taught in the Brooklyn College MFA program and the Writing
Seminars at Bennington College. </span><span lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>*******************<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Ordinary
Evening's Fall 2008 season promises a wide diversity of excellent writers, with
novelist Patricia Volk and non-fiction writer Charles Barber coming in December
and a whole new lineup for Spring 2009. We welcome drinkers and teetotalers
alike and hope you can join us for what the <i>New Haven Independent</i> called
"one of those unofficial civic ventures that make New Haven such a vibrant
place." <br>
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Read writers' biographies, find links, send us an email, and more at <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>The Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale Collection
of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To post
announcements about poetry and fiction readings, send the full text of the
announcement, including contact information, to <a
href="http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/yale-readings">nancy.kuhl at
yale.edu.</a> Messages sent directly to the Yale-Readings list may not be
posted. <br>
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