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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>GIVE YOURSELF A
PRESENT: ORDINARY EVENING READING SERIES PRESENTS NON-FICTION WRITER CHARLES
BARBER AND NOVELIST PATRICIA VOLK<br>
Tuesday, December 16, 7pm<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>NEW HAVEN, CT: December 2, 2008: Catch your breath in this
hectic season and let us give you a gift! The Ordinary Evening Reading Series
is delighted to present Charles Barber, non-fiction writer and memoirist, and
Patricia Volk, novelist and memoirist, 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></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>"Anger, greed,
laziness, impulsivity, as well as jealousy, lust, anguish, and so on are simply
part of the human predicament. They are not medical conditions. To treat them
as medical conditions is a perversion of medicine." <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>--Charles Barber, <i>Comfortably
Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation</i> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>""Grapefruit
seeds rarely made it to the garbage. She sprouted them on wet cotton
balls, then planted them in pots filled with free dirt from Central
Park. She never gave up the dream of a fruit-bearing grapefruit tree
on a New York windowsill."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> --Patricia
Volk, <i>Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:0in'><b>Charles Barber</b> is the author of <i>Comfortably
Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation </i>(coming out in paperback in
February 2009) and the memoir, <i>Songs from the Black Chair</i>. He was
educated at Harvard and Columbia and worked for ten years in New York City
shelters for the homeless mentally ill. The title essay of <i>Songs from the
Black Chair</i> won a 2006 Pushcart Prize and the book itself received a
Connecticut Book Award in 2006. <i>Comfortably Numb </i>was released in 2008 to
national media attention, including appearances on The Early Show and Fresh
Air. His work has appeared in <a
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/02/11/ST2008021100863.html?sid=ST2008021100863"><i><span
style='text-decoration:none'>The Washington Post</span></i></a>, <i>The New
York Times</i>, <i>The Nation, </i>and <i>Scientific American Mind</i>, among
other publications, and on NPR. He has taught nonfiction writing at Wesleyan
University. He is a senior administrator at <a
href="http://www.theconnectioninc.org/">The Connection</a>, an innovative
social services agency, and a lecturer in psychiatry at the Yale University
School of Medicine. He lives in Connecticut with his family.<br>
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<b>Patricia Volk</b>'s most recent work is the novel, <i>To My Dearest Friends</i>.
She has also written the memoir <i>Stuffed</i>, a novel <i>White Light</i>, and
two collections of short stories, <i>All It Takes</i> and <i>The Yellow Banana</i>.
She has published stories, book reviews, and essays in dozens of magazines,
including <i>The Atlantic Monthly</i>, <i>the New York Times Magazine</i>, <i>the
New York Times Book Review</i>, <i>New York</i>, <i>The New Yorker</i>, <i>Playboy</i>,
and <i>GQ</i>. She was a weekly columnist for <i>New York Newsday</i>, and
lives in New York City.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Ordinary Evening's Spring 2009
season debuts on January 20<sup>th</sup> with Mark Oppenheimer and Barry
McCrea. 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 <a
href="http://www.ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/">http://www.ordinaryevening.blogspot.com</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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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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