[Yale-readings] 4-29: Friendly reminder: Ann Hood and Dana Kinstler read Tues 4/29

[Nancy Kuhl]

>SWING INTO SPRING WITH
>AN ORDINARY EVENING
>READING SERIES
>
>Ann Hood and Dana Kinstler
>read Tuesday, April 29, 7-8pm
>
>An Ordinary Evening in New Haven reading series roots for springtime 
>with a lively reading by Ann Hood and Dana Kinstler, fiction 
>writers, memorists and co-contributors to Mr. Wrong: Real-Life 
>Stories About the Men We Used To Love, on Tuesday, April 29, 7pm, at 
>the Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room (downstairs), 272 College Street at Chapel.
>
>"Mary showed up empty-handed.
>
>'I don't have anything with me,' she said, and she opened her arms 
>to indicate their emptiness. .....
>
>The woman nodded. 'I know,' she said, stepping back so that the door 
>swung wide open. 'I can't tell you how many people have stood right 
>where you're standing and said that exact thing.'"
>
>- opening lines of The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood
>
>*******
>
>"After lunch the client's children came into Bob Scheinman's 
>showcase with their mother, Mrs. Van der Brooks. He hovered over the 
>stack of inventory slips at my desk, holding an armload of starchy 
>organza, like a huge bouquet of yellow violets. Before greeting the 
>mother or her children, before handing the kids over to me, he 
>whispered in my ear, 'Poof dresses can get to you after a while.'
>
>'Even though you are the designer?' I sucked down an enormous gulp 
>of iced coffee.
>
>'Especially because I'm the designer.' He rolled his eyes while Mrs. 
>Van der Brooks waited outside in the carpeted hallway on a love seat."
>
>- from "Coney Island in Winter" by Dana Kinstler
>
>
>Ann Hood is the author, most recently, of the novel The Knitting 
>Circle and the forthcoming memoir, Comfort: A Journey Through Grief. 
>Her short stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, 
>Tin House, The Paris Review, Bon Appetit, Traveler, and many more 
>publications. She has won two Pushcart Prizes, The Paul Bowles Prize 
>for Short Fiction, and a Best American Spiritual Writing Award.
>
>Dana Kinstler won the Southern Indiana Review's fiction prize in 
>2007, and The Missouri Review Editor's prize in 2000. Her fiction 
>has been published in Salamander Review and the Mississippi Review. 
>Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in the Stella Magazine 
>section of the Sunday London Telegraph, and in the anthologies: My 
>Father Married Your Mother: Writers Talk about Stepparents, 
>Stepchildren and Everyone in Between, Mr. Wrong, About Face, and 
>Feed Me. She grew up in New York City and now lives in the Hudson 
>River Valley, New York, with her husband and two daughters.
>
>Ordinary Evening's Spring 2008 schedule winds up with a final 
>reading featuring novelist Wally Lamb and a tribute to poet Jason 
>Shinder (5/20).  Please join us!
>
>Read writers' biographies, find links, send us an email, and more at 
><http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/>http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/.
>
>ABOUT THE ORDINARY EVENING SERIES
>
>Started in spring 2005, Ordinary Evening features 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 in the Elm 
>City to enjoy a little written word on a work-night.  Readings are 
>always on a Tuesday at 7pm, free of charge, both drinkers and 
>teetotalers welcome.
>
>
>--
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