[Yale-readings] Ordinary Evening Reading Series, Tues. 10/16, 7pm

[Nancy Kuhl]

>ORDINARY EVENING READING SERIES
>WELCOMES LAURA M. MACDONALD AND AMY BLOOM
>Tuesday, October 16, 7-8pm
>
>The Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room (downstairs)
>272 College Street at Chapel, (203) 865-1512
>
>"She has never been in a cafe like this, theater people, women wearing 
>makeup and spangled hats and waving cigarette holders, blowing bright-red 
>kisses and smoke at men in velvet caps who are laughing as if they've 
>heard something fresh and funny and possibly obscene. . . ."
>  --Amy Bloom, from Away
>
>"Barrels from the Mont Blanc's foredeck were hurtling into the air by some 
>mysterious force, bursting first into smoke and then into fire with a 
>great roar. More barrels ripped from their strappings and catapulted into 
>the sky, sending balls of smoke three hundred feet into the air before 
>stretching into a sheet of lurid pink and green flame."
>-- Laura M. Macdonald, from Curse of the Narrows
>
>Laura M. Macdonald's most recent book, Curse of the Narrows, won the 2005 
>Dartmouth Book Award and was a finalist for the 2006 Charles Taylor Prize 
>for Non-Fiction, the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Prize, and the John W. 
>Dafoe Prize. It was also featured as Barnes and Noble New Voices 
>selection. She is the co-author of one novel. Born in Halifax, Nova 
>Scotia, she now lives in New York. Her website is 
><http://www.laurammacdonald.com/>Laura M. Macdonald.com.
>
>Amy Bloom is the author of two novels – including her latest, Away, a 
><http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/books/review/Thomas-t.html?ref=review>New 
>York Times bestseller – as well as two collections of short stories, and a 
>book of essays. She's been nominated for both the National Book Award and 
>the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories have appeared in Best 
>American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and numerous 
>anthologies here and abroad. She has written for the New Yorker, the New 
>York Times Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, Vogue , Slate, and Salon, among 
>many other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award. She lives 
>in Connecticut and teaches at Yale University.
>
>MARK YOUR CALENDARS
>This season's lineup offers an eclectic mix of poetry, fiction, 
>non-fiction and drama from local and further-flung writers, including 
>Judith Baumel and Martha Cooley (11/13); and Robert Ackerman and Tom Gavin 
>(12/11). For biographies, links to poems and other information, visit 
><http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/>http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/.
>
>ABOUT THE ORDINARY EVENING SERIES
>Started in spring 2005, the <http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/>Ordinary 
>Evening Reading S<http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/>eries 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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