[Yale-readings] Wendy Salinger at Yale Bookstore on May 6

[Nancy Kuhl]

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>Contact:          Richard G. Carlson, Events Coordinator, The Yale 
>Bookstore­(203) 777-8440 x 165
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>Wendy Salinger Reads from Her Memoir, Listen,
>  at The Yale Bookstore on May 6
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>What:              Wendy Salinger reading from and signing copies of her 
>memoir, Listen (Bloomsbury, $23.95))
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>When:             Saturday, May 6, 2006 at 2:00 pm
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>Where:            The Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway, New Haven, CT
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>About The Book:  Listen is Wendy Salinger’s haunting and artfully wrought 
>memoir of growing up the daughter of a brilliant but tormented literature 
>professor in North Carolina.  What makes this debut so unique is 
>Salinger’s ability to conjure the voices of her parents, her use of 
>language and metaphor, and the intensity of the experiences that pulls the 
>reader into her life.  In Listen we are introduced to Wendy, a middle 
>child and burgeoning poet, as she grows up during the 1950s and 1960s.  At 
>the head of her outwardly proper academic family is Victor, a professor of 
>literature and languages who wants his epitaph to read “Poet, Teacher, 
>Translator.”  But there are other sides to Victor’s legacy for his three 
>obedient daughters and his long-suffering wife Lillian, whom he tyrannizes 
>with his demands and dissatisfactions.  For Wendy, in particular, growing 
>up with Victor means an apprenticeship to language that ultimately leads 
>her to her life’s work.  But that same hand leads her down darker paths, 
>into the deep confusions of incest and betrayal.  In telling her story, 
>Salinger deftly shifts between comic monologue and scenes of stark 
>descriptive and emotional force.  Hers is a rare gift:  the ear of both a 
>dramatist and a poet.  There are times when her writing strips language to 
>the bone.  And like all honest memoirs, Listen is also about exploring the 
>meaning of memory itself.  What do families choose to remember?  What do 
>they choose to forget?  And can the things forgotten be recovered?  This 
>is the story of a daughter who listened, and who used the gifts bequeathed 
>to her by her father to unlock her past and eventually create her 
>future.  It’s the memoir of a poet, for whom the secrets of memory are the 
>secrets of language.
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>About The Author:  Wendy Salinger is the author of Folly River, which won 
>the National Poetry Series, and a graduate of Duke and the University of 
>Iowa.  Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, The 
>Paris Review, and Ploughshares.  She is the recipient of a Guggenheim 
>Fellowship and has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony.  She directs the 
>Schools Project at the 92nd Street Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center in New York 
>City.
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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.  All events are free and open to the public.  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 Café serves 
>Starbucks coffee and snacks.
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