[Yale-readings] 9/15: Eugenia Kim, Tim Parrish

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Ordinary Evening Reading Series Presents
Eugenia Kim and Tim Parrish

at the Anchor Bar, New Haven

Tuesday, September 15, 7pm




Ring in the new school year (and Ordinary Evening's Fall 2009 season) with readings from novelist Eugenia Kim and fiction and non-fiction writer Tim Parrish at 7PM on Tuesday September 15th in the Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room, 272 College Street in New Haven.



"The magical leaflets dropped by B-29s that had announced Japan's unconditional surrender could still be found scattered throughout the city - caught in a treetop, composting in a gutter, happily displayed in a store window next to the flyer from the first drop, which transcribed Hirohito's unprecedented radio capitulation. I went outside often to eagerly scan the heavens for those sweet silver birds whose high mechanical roars had heralded freedom."



- from The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim





"R. T. and I took a helicopter to work and we weren't rich men. We were roustabouts twenty-three miles offshore. A production platform, not a drilling rig, and I've got ten fingers to prove it. Out there, blue sky over us, blue sea under us, we pumped the vein, maybe even sucked from the heart. It thrilled me to think how deep we went."



- from "Roustabout" in Red Stick Men by Tim Parrish





Eugenia Kim is the daughter of Korean immigrant parents who came to America shortly after the Pacific War. She has published short stories and essays in journals and anthologies, including Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings, and is an MFA graduate of Bennington College. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and son. The Calligrapher's Daughter is her first novel.

Tim Parrish is author of Red Stick Men, a collection of stories set in and around his hometown of Baton Rouge. His most recent fiction and nonfiction appear in Cincinnati Review, Idaho Review, Hotel Amerika, and in the anthologies Alive and Awake in the Pelican State (LSU Press) and Louisiana in Words (Pelican Press). He has a story and an essay forthcoming in Maanha, an upcoming on-line journal of North American and Iranian writers. He is currently at work on a memoir, entitled Southern Man, about being raised a racist, fundamentalist Southern Baptist and subsequently becoming involved in street and race violence. He has received a Gerald E. Freund Grant-in-Aid from the Whiting Foundation and has received fellowships through the Connecticut Arts Council and Sewanee Writers Conference. He teaches in the MFA and undergraduate creative-writing programs at Southern Connecticut State University.





Mark your calendars! Our next reading is Tuesday, October 20. The Ordinary Evening Reading Series features readings by poets, novelists, and non-fiction writers. 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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