[Yale-readings] Reminder! Tuesday, March 4: The Yale Reading, Tom Perrotta and Rosanna Warren

[Nancy Kuhl]

>>
>>The Yale Reading
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>>Tuesday, March 4, 2008 7 p.m.
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>>St. Anthony Hall (483 College Street)
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>>Novelist Tom Perrotta and poet Rosanna Warren
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>>Sponsored by the Department of English and Branford College
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>>Rosanna Warren is the Emma Ann MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the 
>>Humanities at Boston University, where she teaches comparative 
>>literature. She is the author of four books of poetry, including 
>>Departure (2003) and Stained Glass (1993), which won the Lamont 
>>Prize from the Academy of American Poets. She has also published a 
>>translation of Euripides' Suppliant Women with Stephen Scully 
>>(1995) and edited several books, including The Art of Translation: 
>>Voices from the Field (1989). She served as Chancellor of the 
>>Academy of American Poets from 1999 to 2005. Her many honors 
>>include the Pushcart Prize, the Award of Merit in Poetry and the 
>>Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 
>>the May Sarton Prize, the Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, and 
>>fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council 
>>of Learned Societies.
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>>Tom Perrotta's most recent novel, The Abstinence Teacher, was 
>>published by St. Martin's Press in 2007. He is author of four other 
>>novels and a collection of short stories, including Election 
>>(1998), which was adapted into a critically acclaimed film, Joe 
>>College (2001), and Little Children (2004). Little Children has 
>>been chosen for a number of "Best of 2004" lists, including The New 
>>York Times Book Review and National Public Radio, and Perrotta 
>>adapted it into an Oscar-nominated film with writer/director Todd 
>>Field. He has taught creative and expository writing at Yale 
>>University and Harvard University.
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>>The Yale Reading, an annual series, features writers who were 
>>students at Yale.
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>The Yale Review
>P. O. Box 208243
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>susan.bianconi at yale.edu

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