[Yale-readings] Caryl Phillips reading: Monday Oct 24

[Erica Sayers]

The Department of English has been privileged this year to welcome a new 
colleague, the distinguished novelist Caryl Phillips.  He will be giving a 
reading next Monday afternoon, October 24, at 4:30pm, at St. Anthony Hall 
(corner of Wall and College Streets).  This is an exceptional opportunity 
to meet our newest member, and to hear an extraordinary writer.

Mr. Phillips will be reading from his most recent novel, Dancing in the 
Dark, just published this month, a moving and coruscating account of racial 
attitudes in turn-of-the-century America.  It is his eighth novel, and 
earlier novels have won the Commonwealth Prize and been short-listed for 
both the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle award.  In 
addition, he has written three books of non-fiction, edited two 
anthologies, written for the radio and television, the stage, and the 
screen  (notably for the Merchant-Ivory film, The Mystic Masseur).  As Time 
magazine has written, "Not only is he one of the most accomplished 
black  novelists writing in English, but he is fast becoming known as one 
of the most productive all-around men of letters anywhere."

Please join us for what promises to be an exciting afternoon.  The reading 
is free and open to the public.  Refreshments will be served.
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