[Yale-readings] 12/16: Charles Barber and Patricia Volk, 7PM in the Anchor Bar

[Kuhl, Nancy]

GIVE YOURSELF A PRESENT: ORDINARY EVENING READING SERIES PRESENTS NON-FICTION WRITER CHARLES BARBER AND NOVELIST PATRICIA VOLK
Tuesday, December 16, 7pm


NEW HAVEN, CT: December 2, 2008: Catch your breath in this hectic season and let us give you a gift! The Ordinary Evening Reading Series is delighted to present Charles Barber, non-fiction writer and memoirist, and Patricia Volk, novelist and memoirist, at 7 PM on Tuesday, November 18 in the Mermaid Room, downstairs at The Anchor Bar, 272 College St. in New Haven.


"Anger, greed, laziness, impulsivity, as well as jealousy, lust, anguish, and so on are simply part of the human predicament. They are not medical conditions. To treat them as medical conditions is a perversion of medicine."
--Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation

""Grapefruit seeds rarely made it to the garbage.  She sprouted them on wet cotton balls, then planted them in pots filled with free dirt from Central Park.  She never gave up the dream of a fruit-bearing grapefruit tree on a New York windowsill."
    --Patricia Volk, Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family


Charles Barber is the author of Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation (coming out in paperback in February 2009) and the memoir, Songs from the Black Chair. He was educated at Harvard and Columbia and worked for ten years in New York City shelters for the homeless mentally ill. The title essay of Songs from the Black Chair won a 2006 Pushcart Prize and the book itself received a Connecticut Book Award in 2006. Comfortably Numb was released in 2008 to national media attention, including appearances on The Early Show and Fresh Air. His work has appeared in The Washington Post<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/02/11/ST2008021100863.html?sid=ST2008021100863>, The New York Times, The Nation, and Scientific American Mind, among other publications, and on NPR. He has taught nonfiction writing at Wesleyan University. He is a senior administrator at The Connection<http://www.theconnectioninc.org/>, an innovative social services agency, and a lecturer in psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. He lives in Connecticut with his family.

Patricia Volk's most recent work is the novel, To My Dearest Friends. She has also written the memoir Stuffed, a novel White Light, and two collections of short stories, All It Takes and The Yellow Banana. She has published stories, book reviews, and essays in dozens of magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, New York, The New Yorker, Playboy, and GQ. She was a weekly columnist for New York Newsday, and lives in New York City.

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Ordinary Evening's Spring 2009 season debuts on January 20th with Mark Oppenheimer and Barry McCrea.  We welcome drinkers and teetotalers alike and hope you can join us for what the New Haven Independent called "one of those unofficial civic ventures that make New Haven such a vibrant place."

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