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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">SCHLESINGER VISITING WRITER SERIES
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<b>Thursday, Sept. 22, 6:30 p.m. <br>
Branford Common Room, 74 High St. <br>
Introduced by Anne Fadiman, Francis Writer-in-Residence </b></span><b><br>
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</b><b><i><span style="color:#993300">New Yorker</span></i></b><b><span style="color:#993300"> Staff Writer
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#993300">"A dazzling talent--hilarious, winning, and deft."<br>
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<i>New Yorker<span class="moz-txt-tag"> </span></i>staff writer Adam Gopnik will read and discuss a sampler of his works at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 22, in the Branford Common Room. Gopnik's books
<span class="moz-txt-slash">include <i>Paris to the Moon </i>(which the <i>Boston Globe</i> called "simply wonderful") and
</span><i>Through the Children's Gate </i><span class="moz-txt-slash">(which the <i>
Los Angeles Times</i> called "enchanted").</span><i> </i><span class="moz-txt-slash">He has won three National Magazine Awards for essays and criticism and been a frequent guest on
<i>Charlie Rose</i>.</span><br>
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</i>The event is part of the Schlesinger Visiting Writer series, which has brought to Yale such distinguished writers as John McPhee, Joan Didion, Dave Eggers, Michael Pollan, and Gay Talese.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;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.
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For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Poetry at Beinecke Library:
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