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style='font-size:13.5pt'>STORIES FOR A NOVEMBER NIGHT: ORDINARY EVENING READING
SERIES PRESENTS FICTION WRITERS ELIZABETH EDELGLASS AND MARTHA SOUTHGATE</span>
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Tuesday, November 18, 7pm<o:p></o:p></p>
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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 7 PM on Tuesday, November 18 in the Mermaid Room, downstairs at The Anchor
Bar, 272 College St. in New Haven. <o:p></o:p></p>
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"'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.'<br>
'What if this time he means it?' Ruth glimpsed the envelope on the tabletop
between them.<br>
'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.'"<br>
--Elizabeth Edelglass, "What Was Hers," <em>New Haven Review</em><o:p></o:p></p>
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"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."<br>
--Martha Southgate, <em>Third Girl From The Left</em><br>
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Short stories by Elizabeth Edelglass have appeared in journals including
Michigan Quarterly Review (winner of the Lawrence Foundation Prize), Lilith
(winner of their short story contest), American Literary Review (second prize
winner in their short fiction contest), Passages North (nominated for Best New
American Voices), New Haven Review, Peregrine, Kalliope, and others. Her story
"Floating Away" won the William Saroyan Centennial Prize and is
forthcoming in the Saroyan Society journal In The Grove. 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 Glimmer Train short story contests. She will read a selection from her
work in progress, The Same Map, 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. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Martha Southgate is the author of Third Girl from the Left, 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, The Fall of Rome, 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 Washington Post. She is also the
author of Another Way to Dance, 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 The New York Times Magazine, O, Premiere,
and Essence. 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. <br>
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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 New Haven
Independent 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 <a
href="http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/">http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com</a><br
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
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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For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: <a
href="https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com">https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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