[Yale-readings] Friendly Reminder - Ordinary Evening Reading Series on Tuesday Dec. 11 at 7PM, Mermaid Room at the Anchor Bar

[Nancy Kuhl]

>ORDINARY EVENING READING SERIES
>FINAL FALL READING WELCOMES
>  PLAYWRIGHT ROB ACKERMAN AND NOVELIST THOMAS GAVIN
>Tuesday, December 11, 7-8pm
>
>The Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room (downstairs)
>272 College Street at Chapel, (203) 865-1512
>
>
>
>"STEVE. What are we doing?
>PATTY. You invited them.
>STEVE. Pomegranate seeds and beeswax candles and handmade Japanese plates. 
>This is work, it's just work, nothing but work. This is insane."
>- opening lines of Disconnect, a play by Rob Ackerman
>
>"
a bareheaded old man in carpet slippers who wore a pair of spectacles 
>with the glass in one frame smashed to a blind star
wandered from one clot 
>of firemen to another and at last climbed the steps of a house where 
>Schlumberger could see flames jumping in a groundfloor window like 
>children wanting to see out."
>- from Kingkill by novelist Thomas Gavin
>
>
>Rob Ackerman wrote Tabletop (2001 Drama Desk Award Winner for Best 
>Ensemble Performance) and Disconnect (produced in 2005 by The Working 
>Theater at Classic Stage Company). His first play, Origin of the Species, 
>was made into an award-winning feature film starring Amanda Peet. Rob and 
>his wife, author Carol Weston, live on the Upper West side with their 
>daughters Emme and Lizzi and a cat named Mike.
>
>Thomas Gavin is the author of three novels. Breathing Water, which won the 
>Lillian Fairchild Award; The Last Film of Emile Vico; and Kingkill, named 
>a Notable Book by the American Library Association and an "Editor's 
>Choice" by Time Magazine. His essays have appeared in The Georgia Review, 
>The Writer's Chronicle, Best American Essays, and other publications, and 
>have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. An excerpt from his novel in 
>progress, Bridge of Lost Boys, appeared in Icarus: New Writing from Around 
>the World. An emeritus professor of English at The University of 
>Rochester, Gavin has taught at Middlebury College and Delta College, and 
>at a number of writing seminars. He has received fellowships from the 
>National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the 
>Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
>
>MARK YOUR CALENDARS
>
>The spring season is packed with surprises, as always, but you can always 
>count on an eclectic mix of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and drama from 
>local and further-flung writers.  Look for our email about readers for the 
>first spring reading on Tuesday, January 22. For biographies, links to 
>work, and other information, visit 
><http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/>http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/.
>
>
>ABOUT THE ORDINARY EVENING SERIES
>
>Started in spring 2005, the Ordinary Evening Reading Series features both 
>emerging and established writers in a monthly reading at the Anchor Bar 
>Mermaid Room, downstairs. Borrowing its name from the poem "An Ordinary 
>Evening in New Haven" by Wallace Stevens, the series aims to bring writers 
>and audiences together in a no-fuss, informal environment to enjoy a 
>little storytelling on a work-night. Readings are always on a Tuesday at 
>7pm, free of charge, both drinkers and teetotalers welcome.
>
>
>--
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