[Yale-readings] Tues. 3/25, 7pm: Jack Hitt and Rachel Pastan Reading

[Nancy Kuhl]

>ORDINARY EVENING READING SERIES PRESENTS
>NONFICTION WRITER JACK HITT
>AND NOVELIST RACHEL PASTAN
>
>Tuesday, March 25, 7pm
>
>
>Get an early taste of spring with fresh new works by award-winning 
>journalist Jack Hitt and novelist Rachel Pastan on Tuesday, March 
>25, 7pm, at the Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room (downstairs), 272 College 
>Street at Chapel.
>
>
>"I guess most of us are condemned to see nothing more than the easy 
>comedy of chickens. But Susan Vitucci saw something else: their 
>potential greatness. Their hidden beauty. Their grandeur."
>
>              - from "Chicken Diva", about an opera based on Chicken 
> Little, This American Life by Jack Hitt
>
>
>" 'She wants to nurse,' Jane said.
>
>'Didn't you just nurse her?' Laura asked, handing the baby back.
>
>Jane felt a sting, as though Laura had criticized her. What did 
>Laura, with her thin bra strap and her round recreational breasts 
>know about anything? 'Her stomach is the size of a walnut,' she said 
>lightly, lifting her shirt...She was glad to have Maisie back in her 
>arms where she belonged. Nothing was sweeter than holding her 
>daughter, except for all the times she longed to put her down."
>
>              - from Lady of the Snakes, by Rachel Pastan
>
>
>Jack Hitt is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, 
>Harper's, and the public radio program, This American Life. 
>Recently, his work was chosen by Jamaica Kincaid for inclusion in 
>Best American Travel Essays and by Atul Gawande for Best American 
>Science Writing. His radio program for This American Life entitled 
>"Habeas Schmabeas" won the 2007 Peabody Award.
>
>Harcourt published Rachel Pastan's second novel, Lady of the Snakes, 
>in January. Her first novel, This Side of Married (Viking), appeared 
>in 2004 and was recognized by the Barnes and Noble Discover Great 
>New Writers program. Rachel's short fiction has been published in 
>The Georgia Review, The Threepenny Review, Mademoiselle, Prairie 
>Schooner, and many other places. A former Bread Loaf Writers' 
>Conference Fellow, she currently teaches at Swarthmore College and 
>the Bennington Writing Seminars and lives with her family near 
>Philadelphia. For more information, please visit her website: 
><http://www.rachelpastan.com>www.rachelpastan.com.
>
>Ordinary Evening's remaining Spring 2008 lineup features writers 
>from the "Mr. Wrong" Anthology, Ann Hood and Dana Kinstler (4/29); 
>and novelist Wally Lamb with 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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