[Yale-readings] Ordinary Evening Reading Series Tuesday 2/27, 7pm

[Nancy Kuhl]

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>TAKE A BREAK FROM THE COLD WITH THE ORDINARY EVENING READING SERIES
>
>
>Tuesday, February 27, 7pm - Novelist Fred Dillen and Nonfiction Writer 
>Deirdre Bair
>
>Warm up this February in the very cozy Mermaid Room, downstairs at the 
>Anchor Bar & Restaurant, 272 College Street near Chapel. (203) 865-1512. 
>This month we trade poetry for a foray into prose, guided by novelist Fred 
>Dillen and biographer / nonfiction writer Deirdre Bair.
>
>No cover charge; drinkers and teetotalers alike are welcome.
>
>Frederick G. Dillen is the author of two novels, Hero -- which was named 
>the best first novel of its year by the Dictionary of Literary Biography 
>-- and Fool. A new novel has been optioned in manuscript by an independent 
>film producer. Fred has won an O.Henry Award and has taught at Harvard and 
>Emerson College. He lives in Cambridge with the playwright and performer 
>Leslie Harrell Dillen. They have two grown daughters and a heartbreakingly 
>old yellow dog with large ears.
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>Deirdre Bair's most recent book, Calling it Quits: Late-Life Divorce and 
>Starting Over, has just been published by Random House. She is also the 
>author of four biographies: Samuel Beckett (winner of the National Book 
>Award); Simone de Beauvoir (NY Times "Best Books of the Year"; finalist: 
>Los Angeles Times Book Prize); Anaïs Nin (NY Times "Notable Books of the 
>Year," BBC Arts 4 documentary); and Jung: A Biography (NY Times "Notable 
>Books of the Year," Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, winner of the 
>NAAP Gradiva Award for Best Biography of the Year).
>
>Deirdre has been a literary journalist and tenured university professor 
>with a specialty in comparative literature and culture, and has held 
>fellowships and grants from many prestigious organizations, including the 
>Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations. She has also been a visiting 
>professor and writer in residence all over the world, and most recently, 
>at Bennington College. She divides her time between New York and New 
>Haven, Connecticut.
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>
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