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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Ordinary
Evening Reading Series Presents </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Rebecca
Chace and Sven Birkerts</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>at
the Anchor Bar, New Haven</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Tuesday,
May 18th, 7 PM</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Join us for one
last spring fling as we conclude our spring 2010 season with novelist Rebecca
Chace and nonfiction writer Sven Birkerts on <b>Tuesday, May 18th, in the
Anchor Bar’s Mermaid Room</b>, 272 College Street in New Haven.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>“'A man can choose what he does with his
own life,' Papa said to me just after it happened, when I was the only person
he would speak to in the upstairs room of the Poughkeepsie house, where the
shades remained drawn day after day, his wrists wrapped in bandages that were
never removed in front of me. His engraving tools had been taken away from him,
we all thought, for good. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>“'What should I tell him?' I had asked
Mother when I came downstairs. She looked up at me dry-eyed and fierce. 'No, he
can’t. You tell him that he can’t choose anymore.'” </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> - from <i>Leaving Rock Harbor</i> by
Rebecca Chace </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>"The words we read - the impressions,
the narratives, the conversations and thoughts of characters - not only touch
our private sense of ourselves, but merge with it, shaping and directing it.
After all, we use our own imaginative energy to bring the words to life and then
project their content - their stuff - onto the interior screen. There the world
we've generated from the written signals glows vividly, or flickers faintly, or
moves in and out of resolution, depending on who we are, what we are reading,
and the wattage of our moods." </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>- from the introduction to <i>Reading Life:
Books for the Ages </i>by Sven Birkerts</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><strong><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Sven </span></strong><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Birkerts</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> is a noted
essayist, editor, instructor, and reviewer. The editor of <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.bu.edu/agni/"
target="_blank">AGNI</a></span></em> since July 2002, he also is director of
the Bennington Writing Seminars. His most recent books are <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again</span></em>
(2007, Graywolf) and <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Reading
Life: Books for the Ages</span></em> (2007, Graywolf). The best-known among his
many books is <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The
Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age</span></em> (Faber
& Faber), and he has also written a memoir, <em><span style='font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"'>My Sky Blue Trades: Growing Up Counter in a Contrary
Time</span></em> (2002, Viking). Sven has edited a number of works, including <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Tolstoy's Dictaphone: Writers and
the Muse</span></em> (Graywolf), <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Writing
Well</span></em> (with Donald Hall), and <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The
Evolving Canon</span></em> (Allyn & Bacon).<br>
<br>
The recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation grant, among others, Sven has also won
the Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle
and the Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award from PEN for the best book of essays. Sven
reviews regularly for <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The
New York Times Book Review</span></em>, <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The
New Republic</span></em>, <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The
Atlantic</span></em>, and other publications. He has taught writing at Harvard
University, Emerson College, and Amherst. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts,
with his wife and two children. Sven also plays guitar in the Doghouse Band.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Rebecca<strong><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span></strong>Chace</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> is the author of
the forthcoming novel <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Leaving
Rock Harbor </span></em>(Scribner, June, 2010) and the memoir <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Chautauqua Summer</span></em>, which
was a <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>New York Times</span></em>
“Notable Book“ and named “Editor's Choice" and one of the "Picks for
Summer" in the <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>New
York Times Book Review</span></em>. She wrote the novel <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Capture the Flag</span></em> and the
essay “<em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Looking for
Robinson Crusoe</span></em>” (Fiction Magazine), which was recently nominated
for a Pushcart prize.<br>
<br>
An actress and playwright, Rebecca's plays include <em><span style='font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Colette</span></em> (Theatre for the New City) in which
she played Colette and hung from a trapeze. She also wrote <i>Vershinin<em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>’s Wife </span></em></i>(performed
in the FringeACT festival) and adapted Kate Chopin's novel <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The Awakening, </span></em>(produced
by Book-It Repertory Theatre at the Seattle Repertory Theatre). <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Capture the Flag</span></em> was
adapted as a screenplay by Rebecca and director Lisanne Skyler, and premiered
at the Aspen Short Film Festival in April, 2010. In addition to acting in the
film, Rebecca has moonlighted as a trapeze artist and likes to swing flaming
torches (outdoors only).<br>
<br>
Rebecca has won several prizes and fellowships. She is a Visiting Assistant
Professor at Bard College and also teaches Fiction and Dramatic Writing in the
MFA Creative Writing Program at the City College of New York. One of her
favorite things in the world is to sing country western songs in the Doghouse
Band with Sven Birkerts playing guitar, along with other members from the
Bennington Writing Seminars.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>We’re back next
fall on September 21<sup>st</sup>!</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> The series returns on Tuesday, September
21, with author and playwright Caryl Phillips and fiction writer Matt Debenham.<br>
<br>
The Ordinary Evening Reading Series presents readings by poets, novelists, and
non-fiction writers. 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." </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Check out previous
and future reading dates, read writers' biographies, send us an email, and more
at <a href="http://www.ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span
style='color:#2951A6'>http://www.ordinaryevening.blogspot.com</span></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"'>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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