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class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Summer Session Creative
Writing Presents</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:36.0pt;color:red'>GEORGE SAUNDERS</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:red'>Reading from
his work</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Tuesday June 16
7 PM</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Room 101
Linsly-Chittenden Hall 63 High Street</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>George
Saunders is one of the young writers remaking the American short story.
Not Minimal, not Maximal, not Modernist, not Post- or
Post-Post-Modernist, a Saunders story is an Anything Can Happen Day:
ghosts, video games that eat your memory, afterlives of mild regret,
murderous fun-fair wave machines, cows with windows in their stomachs. </span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Saunders
is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, author of the collections <i>CivilWarLand
in Bad Decline</i>, <i>P</i></span></b></span><span
class=apple-style-span><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#330000'>astoralia</span></i></b></span><span class=apple-style-span><b><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#330000'> and <i>In
Persuasion Nation</i>, the children's book <i>The Very Persistent Gappers
of Frip</i>, and the novella <i>The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil</i>.
He teaches Creative Writing at Syracuse University.</span></b></span><span
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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"><span
style='color:blue'>nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</span></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"><span style='color:blue'>https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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