[Yale-readings] Fwd: Kit Reed at Yale Bookstore, October 5

[Nancy Kuhl]

>From: "Richard G. Carlson" <crc-events at snet.net>
>To: "Yale Readings" <nancy.kuhl at yale.edu>
>Subject: Kit Reed at Yale Bookstore, October 5
>Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 17:14:54 -0400
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>Contact:       Richard G. Carlson
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>Media Alert from The Yale Bookstore
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>What:              Kit Reed reading from and signing copies of her novel, 
>Thinner Than Thou
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>When:             Tuesday, October 5, 2004 at 6:30 p.m.
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>Where:            The Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway, New Haven, CT
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>About The Book:  TV says it.  Magazines say it.  American society commands 
>it.  You must be thin.  You must be young.  Fad diets.Fitness 
>clubs.  Liposuction.  Breast implants.  Steroids.the cult of the body has 
>become the one true religion.  The Dedicated Sisters are a religious order 
>sworn to help anorexic, bulimic, and morbidly obese youth.  Throughout the 
>land, houses of worship have been replaced by the health clubs of the 
>Crossed Triceps.  And through hypnotically powerful evangelical 
>infomercials, the Reverend Earl preaches the heaven of the Afterfat, where 
>you will look like a Greek god and eat anything you want.  Just sign over 
>your life savings and come to Sylphania, the most luxurious weight-loss 
>spa in the world.  But the glory of youth and thinness conceals a hidden 
>world where teens train for the competitive eating circuit, where fat porn 
>and obese strippers feed on people s dark desires, and where an 
>underground railroad of rebellious religious remember when people 
>worshipped God instead of the Afterfat.  Into this underworld come Annie, 
>an anorexic, and her friend Kelly, who is so massive she can barely walk.
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>About The Author:  Kit Reed has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Rockefeller 
>Fellow at The Aspen Institute.  Her novel, Little Sisters of the 
>Apocalypse, and a short story collection, Weird Women, Wired Women, were 
>finalists for the James W. Tiptree Award.  She has been nominated for the 
>World Fantasy Award for short fiction.  A novel, The Ballad of T. Rantula, 
>was named to the American Library Association list of Best Books for Young 
>Adults.  Reed s short fiction has been published in The Yale Review, The 
>Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Omni, and The Norton Anthology of 
>Contemporary Literature.  She works with fiction writers at Wesleyan 
>University.
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>About the Yale Bookstore:
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>The Yale Bookstore, a Barnes and Noble College Bookstore is located at 77 
>Broadway at York Square, New Haven, CT, 06511, (203) 777-8440, 
>www.yalebookstore.com.  The bookstore offers a wide selection of 
>bestsellers, titles by Yale and local authors, Yale course books and 
>emblematic merchandise, dorm supplies, gifts, stationery and Clinique 
>products.  The Yale Bookstore Cafe serves Java City Coffee and snacks.
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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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