[Yale-readings] Ordinary Evening Reading Series - Tuesdays 4/17 and 5/1

[Nancy Kuhl]

>SING FOR SPRINGTIME AT THE ORDINARY EVENING READING SERIES
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>April 17, 7PM - Novelists Chandra Prasad and Sheila Kohler
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>On Tuesday, April 17th, The Ordinary Evening Reading Series proudly 
>presents two fiction writers, New Haven native Chandra Prasad and O. 
>Henry-award winning novelist Sheila Kohler. As always, the reading will 
>start at 7 PM in the Mermaid Room, downstairs at the Anchor Bar, 272 
>College St. in New Haven (203) 865-1512. No cover charge; drinkers and 
>teetotalers alike are welcome.
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>Chandra Prasad's writing explores themes of identity and belonging. 
>Inspired by lore and legend, her book Death of a Circus is a dark tale 
>that centers around a young man who dreams of making a name for himself as 
>a high-wire walker. Tom Perrotta says it is "narrated with Dickensian 
>verve, a keen eye for historical detail, and lots of heart." Prasad is the 
>editor of—and a contributor to—Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the 
>Multiracial Experience (W.W. Norton), which features original work by 
>Danzy Senna and Ruth Ozeki, among others. She is also the author of 
>Outwitting the Job Market as well as dozens of articles on diversity and 
>the workplace. Her novel On Borrowed Wings, about a girl who attends Yale 
>University in the 1930s in the guise of a boy, will be published by Atria 
>(Simon & Schuster) in June. Chandra lives in Connecticut with her husband, 
>son, and an iguana named Green Bean.
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>Sheila Kohler has just published Bluebird or the Invention of Happiness 
>(Other Press, April 2007), an account of an 18th century French noblewoman 
>who left Revolutionary France and became a successful dairy farmer in 
>Massachusetts. She is the author of five other novels: The Perfect 
>Place,(Knopf,1989) The House on R Street, (Knopf, 1994) Cracks 
>(Zoland,1999) Children of Pithiviers, (Zoland, June, 2001) and 
>Crossways(The Ontario Review Press, October 2004), and three collections 
>of short stories: Miracles in America,(Knopf, 1990) One Girl (Helicon 
>Nine, 1999) and Stories from Another World (2003, Ontario Review Press).
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>Kohler has been awarded the O.Henry, (1988), the Open Voice Award(1991), 
>The Willa Cather Prize for One Girl(1998), the Smart Family Foundation 
>prize (October, 2000) and the Antioch Review Prize, (2004). She was a 
>fellow at the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library in 2003/4 and 
>teaches at Bennington and Brooklyn College.
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>May 1, 7PM – Your-Favorite-Poem Night
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>In the spirit that "every month is Poetry Month", we invite you to gather 
>up some favorites and read aloud with us on Tuesday, May 1, 7PM. Old or 
>new, famous or obscure, stuff you've written yourself – we welcome all 
>comers. All we ask is that you limit your contribution to 5 minutes, so 
>that everyone gets a chance to read. See you on May Day!
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