[Yale-readings] Wally Lamb Reads and Jason Shinder is Read, Tues. 5/20, 7PM

[Nancy Kuhl]

>ORDINARY EVENING READING SERIES
>WELCOMES WALLY LAMB AND REMEMBERS JASON SHINDER
>Tuesday, May 20, 7-8pm
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>The Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room (downstairs)
>272 College Street at Chapel, (203) 865-1512
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>  "That's what life's all about, Dolores," Ma 
> said. "Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off."
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>-          Wally Lamb from She's Come Undone
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it is the only one
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>             I could have found.
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>I am
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>             the only one
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>                         who could have found it."
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>  -         Jason Shinder from his poem "Man Dressing," in Among Women
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>We at Ordinary Evening invite you to join us to 
>hear Wally Lamb read from his forthcoming book, 
>The Hour I First Believed, preceded by a few of 
>Jason Shinder's poems in memory of the many 
>gifts that he created during his life. We mourn 
>his passing in April after a long battle with 
>cancer and we celebrate the creativity and 
>promise that abounds in his work and in Wally's.
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>Jason Shinder's most recent poetry books are 
>Among Women and Arrow Breaking Apart. A 
>recipient of 2007 poetry fellowships from the 
>National Endowment for the Arts and the 
>Massachusetts Council on the Arts, his poetry 
>has appeared in the New Yorker, Paris Review, 
>and elsewhere. His other books include Best 
>American Movie Writing; Writers on Therapy, The 
>Poem That Changed America; "Howl" Fifty Years 
>Later, and the forthcoming The Poem I Turn To: 
>Actors, Directors & other Moviemakers Present 
>Poems That Inspire Them. He was the 
>founder/director of the YMCA National Writer's 
>Voice, YMCA Arts & Humanities, and the Gibson 
>Music International Program, and taught in the 
>graduate writing program at Bennington College. 
>His work within the filmmaking community 
>included the directing of the Arts Writing Program at Sundance Institute.
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>Wally Lamb's third novel, The Hour I First 
>Believed (HarperCollins, forthcoming) explores 
>chaos theory by interfacing several generations 
>of a fictional Connecticut family with such 
>nonfictional American events as the Civil War, 
>Boston's 1942 Coconut Grove nightclub fire, and 
>the Columbine High School shootings of 1999. His 
>first two novels, She's Come Undone (Simon and 
>Schuster/Pocket, 1992) and I Know This Much Is 
>True (HarperCollins/ReganBooks, 1998), were # 1 
>New York Times bestsellers, New York Times 
>Notable Books of the Year, and featured titles 
>of Oprah's Book Club. Wally has also edited the 
>nonfiction anthologies Couldn't Keep It to 
>Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters 
>(HarperCollins/ReganBooks, 2003) and I'll Fly 
>Away (HarperCollins, 2007), collections of 
>autobiographical essays that evolved from a 
>writing workshop Lamb facilitates at 
>Connecticut's York Correctional Institute, a 
>maximum-security prison for women. He has served 
>as a Connecticut Department of Corrections volunteer from 1999 to the present.
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>A Connecticut native, Wally holds Bachelors and 
>Masters Degrees in teaching from the University 
>of Connecticut and a Master of Fine Arts in 
>Writing degree from Vermont College. He has 
>taught at Norwich Free Academy and the 
>University of Connecticut, where he directed the 
>English Department's creative writing program.
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>Wally has received a host of awards, including 
>the Connecticut Center for the Book's Lifetime 
>Achievement Award and Distinguished Alumni 
>awards from Vermont College and the University 
>of Connecticut. He was the 1999 recipient of the 
>New England Book Award for fiction. He and his 
>wife, Christine, are the parents of three sons, Jared, Justin, and Teddy.
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>MARK YOUR CALENDARS
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>This season's lineup offers an eclectic mix of 
>poetry, fiction, non-fiction and drama from 
>local and further-flung writers.  The first 
>reading of the Fall season, on Tuesday, 
>September 18, will present novelist and Ordinary 
>Evening co-curator Alice Mattison and poet 
>Cameron Gearon. For biographies, links to work, 
>and other information, visit 
><https://email.hbs.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=845d002fa9e244148a4e624ab0cd9df9&URL=http%3a%2f%2fordinaryevening.blogspot.com%2f>http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/.
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>ABOUT THE ORDINARY EVENING SERIES
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>Started in spring 2005, the 
><https://email.hbs.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=845d002fa9e244148a4e624ab0cd9df9&URL=http%3a%2f%2fordinaryevening.blogspot.com%2f>Ordinary 
>Evening Reading Series 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 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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