[Yale-readings] REMINDER: Anna Cypra Oliver @ ALL's Word of Mouth Series THIS FRIDAY

[Nancy Kuhl]

>
>WORD of MOUTH, the monthly reading series @ ARTS + LITERATURE LABORATORY 
>invites you to a join us for our featured guest, memoirist ANNA CYPRA OLIVER.
>
>Friday, December 17th at 7pm
>
>Anna Cypra Oliver is the author of ASSEMBLING MY FATHER, 
><http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?titleNumber=688489>(Houghton 
>Mifflin, 2004), the riveting account of her search for the truth about her 
>father—a failed architect and child of the counterculture—who ended his 
>life at the age of thirty-five. Obsessed with the need to learn who he was 
>and why he died, she set out on a journey of discovery, following the 
>clues he had scattered during his brief lifetime.
>
>Ms. Oliver has an MFA in creative writing from the 
><http://english.cla.umn.edu/creativewriting/program.html>University of 
>Minnesota. She received a 2001 fellowship in nonfiction literature from 
>the <http://www.nyfa.org/>New York Foundation for the Arts for ASSEMBLING 
>MY FATHER, her first book.
>
>"From a hair-raising childhood on the margins of the 60s counterculture, 
>Anna Cypra Oliver has given us an enthralling memoir and an acute reading 
>of an era that continues to haunt—and inspire—America. I just kept turning 
>the pages, held by a riveting family detective story and by its brave 
>meditation on American idealism. A passionate personal story that is also 
>a rare tour de force of cultural history."
>—Patricia Hampl, author of A Romantic Education and I Could Tell You Stories
>
>"Oliver's memorial to her elusive dad—and the way researching and writing 
>it changes her own identity—is unforgettable."
>—Publishers Weekly
>
>As usual, an open mic will start the evening--all genres welcome. Please 
>come a few minutes early to sign up.

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