[Yale-readings] Distinguished Writers Series At Wesleyan University

[Nancy Kuhl]

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>Distinguished Writers Series At Wesleyan University
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>On Wednesday January 28, at 7:30 p.m., four noted young writers; Alexander 
>Chee, Paul LaFarge, John Vincent, and Elizabeth Willis will inaugurate the 
>Distinguished Writers-Russell House Prose and Poetry Series. Alexander 
>Chee's first novel, Edinburgh, received the Lambda Literary Award and was 
>named a best book of 2001 by Publisher's Weekly. His essays and poetry 
>have been widely published and anthologized. In 2003 he received a Whiting 
>WritersAward. Paul LaFarge is the author of two novels, The Artist of the 
>Missing, which received a California Book Award, and Haussmann, or The 
>Distinction, highly praised by the New York Times.  His stories have 
>appeared in Conjunctions, STORY, McSweeney's and other journals, and he 
>recently received a Guggenheim fellowship.
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>John Vincent is a poet and critic. His poetry manuscript Kafka On The 
>Beach was a finalist for the Paris Review Prize. His poems have appeared 
>in Cream City Review, American Poetry Review, and are included in the 
>anthology, New Gay Poets. His most recent book is Queer Lyrics: Difficulty 
>and Closure in American Poetry. Elizabeth Willis's collection of poetry, 
>The Human Abstract, won the National Poetry Series award. Her poems are 
>widely published here and abroad and have appeared in recent issues of 
>American Poetry Review, The Baffler, Chicago Review, Conjunctions, and 
>Triquarterly. Her new collection, Turneresque, was published in 2003.
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>Support for this reading is provided by the Wesleyan Writing Program and 
>the Russell House Prose and Poetry Series.
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>Please note the early time of this program. A reception and book signing 
>will follow the reading. The Russell House, which was named a National 
>Historic Landmark in 2001, is located on the campus of Wesleyan 
>University, at 350 High Street in Middletown, CT. Readings take place in 
>an intimate parlor setting and seating is very limited. For directions or 
>more information, please call Nancy Albert at 860-685-2280.
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>THIS EVENT IS FREE OF CHARGE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Nancy Kuhl
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
121 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Phone: 203.432.2966
Fax: 203.432.4047
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