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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Ordinary Evening Reading Series Welcomes Edith Pearlman and Elizabeth Ziemska</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Feb. 15 at 7pm – Anchor Bar</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Refresh your palate in the chocolate-coated aftermath of Valentine’s Day by joining The Ordinary Evening Reading Series for two exciting fiction writers, Edith Pearlman and Elizabeth Ziemska, at <b>7PM on Tuesday, February 15, in the Anchor Bar’s Mermaid Room</b>, 272 College Street in New Haven.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Reviewing <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Edith Pearlman’s </span></strong><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Binocular Vision </span></em>on the front page of the January 14th <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>New York Times Book Review</span></em>, Roxana Robinson wrote that in these stories “we’re caught up in a stream of beguiling details. . .as Pearlman describes a world that’s familiar, beloved and fascinating all at once.” But then, says Robinson, Pearlman “slips in an emotion. . . which permeates the landscape, leaving it known but dreaded, familiar but unbearable, a place we never want to inhabit, but do.” </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#29303B'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.25in;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“The orchestra fluted, blared, strummed. Persons danced, changed partners, danced again. The pile of hamantaschen diminished, was replenished. The two Hungarian sisters entered, hand in hand. A skit was performed in one corner. Ida entered, wearing a hat. A skit was performed on stage. Someone sang, dreadfully. Three men dragged in the upright piano from the corridor, although the orchestra had specified that it did not require a piano, did not want a piano, certainly could not employ that piano, which was missing seventeen keys.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.25in;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>—from “Purim Night,” in <i>Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories</i> by Edith Pearlman<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.25in;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“For instance, how would I have reacted if I’d figured out that what my father had made me was not just a clever toy but a time machine? Had I known that my father had given me the means to fast-forward to a time beyond the havoc of my parents’ divorce, would I have used it? Had I known that I could skip past the 1980s and ‘90s and settle gently into the place where I am now, at peace with myself, would I have done it?” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.25in;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>—from “Count Poniatowski and the Beautiful Chicken,” <i>Interfictions:</i>2 by Elizabeth Ziemska<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#29303B'><br></span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Edith Pearlman’s</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories</span></em> has just been published by Lookout Press. She is the author of three other collections of stories: <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Vaquita</span></em> (1996), <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Love Among The Greats</span></em> (2002), and <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>How To Fall </span></em>(2005). She has published more than 250 works of short fiction and short non-fiction in national magazines, literary journals, anthologies, and on-line publications. Her work has been selected by <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Prize Collection, Best Short Stories from the South</span></em>, and <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Pushcart Prize Collection</span></em>. Her essays have appeared in the <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, Preservation</span></em>, and <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Yankee</span></em>. Her travel writing has been published in the <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>New York Times, The Boston Globe</span></em>, and <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://salon.com/" target="_blank">salon.com</a></span></em>.<br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Elizabeth Ziemska</span></strong>'s first published story "A Murder of Crows," appeared in <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Tin House</span></em> (Spring 2007), was a finalist for the 2008 Shirley Jackson Award, and made the extended list for <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Best American Non-Required Reading</span></em>. "Count Poniatowski and the Beautiful Chicken" was published in <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Interfictions:2</span></em> (2009). Elizabeth is currently at work on a novel that combines Russia, mythology, sturgeon, and two women.<br><br>Born in Poland, Elizabeth grew up in New York and L.A. She went to Vassar and UCLA, where she earned a degree in Biology. After several years working as an agent first in the New York publishing industry and then in L.A.’s film industry, she decided to pursue writing at the Bennington Writing Seminars. She earned her MFA in 2008 and lives in L.A. with her husband, stepson, and three crazy dogs.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This season’s lineup offers an eclectic mix of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction read by the authors. For our March 15 program, we welcome fiction writers Daniel Swift and Michael Alenyikov. Check our website for author biographies, links to samples of their work, and other information: </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;color:purple'>http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>. </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ABOUT THE ORDINARY EVENING SERIES </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Read writers' biographies, find links to more writing, send us an email, and more at </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;color:#2951A6'>http://www.ordinaryevening.blogspot.com</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>. </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><br>-- <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><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><br>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><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>