[Yale-readings] 11-18: Ordinary Evening Features Elizabeth Edelglass and Martha Southgate on 11/18, 7PM at the Anchor

[Kuhl, Nancy]

STORIES FOR A NOVEMBER NIGHT: ORDINARY EVENING READING SERIES PRESENTS FICTION WRITERS ELIZABETH EDELGLASS AND MARTHA SOUTHGATE
Tuesday, November 18, 7pm

 Brush the leaves from your hair and join us as the Ordinary Evening Reading Series presents the stories of Elizabeth Edelglass and Martha Southgate at 7 PM on Tuesday, November 18 in the Mermaid Room, downstairs at The Anchor Bar, 272 College St. in New Haven.

 "'Men, all talk or none,' Fanny said, lifting her face with a crooked smile. 'And us, never satisfied...But Al's okay, I guarantee...Mine, on the other hand, such a talker, every other day saying he gonna leave his wife.'
'What if this time he means it?' Ruth glimpsed the envelope on the tabletop between them.
'If...if...' Fanny reapplied her lipstick right there at the table, a deep red the color of Shabbos wine. 'If my grandmother had a beard, she'd be my grandfather.'"
--Elizabeth Edelglass, "What Was Hers," New Haven Review

"It was 1972.  There were at least fifty beautiful girls in the room.  Everywhere you looked there was another young woman, each face a different brown, here the color of a puppy's eyes, there the color of a fallen acorn, all so heartbreaking.  And for once, not afraid.  There was something about these women, these new young women, that made you think that something must be changing, that the time had come to start giving to pretty black women, not taking from them."
 --Martha Southgate, Third Girl From The Left

Short stories by Elizabeth Edelglass have appeared in journals including Michigan Quarterly Review (winner of the Lawrence Foundation Prize), Lilith (winner of their short story contest), American Literary Review (second prize winner in their short fiction contest), Passages North (nominated for Best New American Voices), New Haven Review, Peregrine, Kalliope, and others. Her story "Floating Away" won the William Saroyan Centennial Prize and is forthcoming in the Saroyan Society journal In The Grove. She has been a Fiction Fellow of the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and has been a finalist or semi-finalist for an assortment of national writing awards, including finalist in two Glimmer Train short story contests. She will read a selection from her work in progress, The Same Map, a collection of connected stories that explores inner conflict along with family strife as an extended Jewish American family advances from the immigrant experience in 1924 Newark to assimilated lives in post-9/11 Connecticut, with travels along the way to the Midwest, California, and Hasidic Brooklyn. Elizabeth is the Director of the Department of Jewish Education Library of Greater New Haven, located at the Jewish Community Center in Woodbridge.

Martha Southgate is the author of Third Girl from the Left, which was published in paperback by Houghton Mifflin in September 2006. It won the Best Novel of the Year award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was shortlisted for both the PEN/Beyond Margins Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy award. Her previous novel, The Fall of Rome, received the 2003 Alex Award from the American Library Association and was named one of the Best Novels of 2002 by Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Post. She is also the author of Another Way to Dance, which won the Coretta Scott King Genesis Award for Best First Novel. She received a 2002 New York Foundation for the Arts grant and has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Her non-fiction articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, O, Premiere, and Essence. She was the Associate Chair of the Writing Department at Eugene Lang College at New School University, and has taught in the Brooklyn College MFA program and the Writing Seminars at Bennington College.
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 Ordinary Evening's Fall 2008 season promises a wide diversity of excellent writers, with novelist Patricia Volk and non-fiction writer Charles Barber coming in December and a whole new lineup for Spring 2009. 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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