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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#CC6600">Belinda McKeon Reading</span></em>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thursday, April 5, 2:00pm</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Location: Beinecke Library, Room 38</span></strong></span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#CC6600">
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">Author
<a href="http://www.belindamckeon.com/"><span style="color:#666666">Belinda McKeon</span></a> will give a reading from her novel
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9797335"><em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">Solace</span></em></a> (2011). McKeon will also discuss the theme of literary research in her writing and her own literary archives. The forum
will conclude with viewing some of the manuscripts of the late-18th-century/early-19th-century author Maria Edgeworth, who figures in
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Solace</span></em> (one of the central characters of the novel, Mark, is a graduate student writing a dissertation on Maria Edgeworth).
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Belinda McKeon was born in Ireland in 1979. Her debut novel, <em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Solace</span></em> was published by Scribner in 2011. It was voted Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book of the Year 2011, as well as being named a Kirkus
Outstanding Debut and winning the Sunday Independent Best Newcomer award at the Irish Book Awards. McKeon lives between Brooklyn and Ireland and has written on the arts for
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Irish Times</span></em> since 2000. As a playwright, she has had work produced in New York and Dublin, and is currently under commission to the Abbey Theatre.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">About SCOPA
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Yale University Library’s Standing Committee on Professional Awareness, SCOPA, strives to encourage professional growth and the development of librarianship as a dynamic profession. SCOPA organizes a regular series of forums devoted to a wide range of topics
concerning initiatives in Yale libraries and academic libraries in general. SCOPA welcomes suggestions concerning possible future forums.<br>
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<a href="https://collaborate.library.yale.edu/SCOPA/SCOPA%20Wiki/Home.aspx"><em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">More information on SCOPA</span></em></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">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">Poetry at Beinecke Library:
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<span style="color:blue">http://beineckepoetry.library.yale.edu/</span><span style="color:blue"><br>
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