[Yale-readings] Tues. Sept. 21, 7PM: Caryl Phillips and Matt Debenham

[Kuhl, Nancy]

The Ordinary Evening Reading Series presents
Caryl Phillips and Matt Debenham
Tuesday September 21, 7 PM
at the Anchor Bar & Restaurant, New Haven CT


Fall into everything new-shoes, schools, and schedules-with the Ordinary Evening Reading Series! Caryl Phillips and Matt Debenham read at 7 PM on Tuesday September 21, in the Anchor Bar & Restaurant's Mermaid Room, 272 College St., in New Haven.

"'I better go now before the buses stop running."  His father leaned over the threshold and hugged him, though the older man was clearly somewhat uncomfortable with the gesture.  Once his father released him he stepped outside the house and into the snow, and he looked on as his father gingerly picked his way down the path in search of some form of transportation that might convey the snow-furred pilgrim back to wherever he lived.  As he walked, his father left behind a single set of footprints, and he remembered lingering by the doorstep and watching closely as the falling snow steadily erased all evidence of his father's presence."
                                                                        - In The Falling Snow, by Caryl Phillips

   "'Try not to think of the bees as stinging you,' I tell my son.  'Think of them as snuffling.  Like a dog would do!'
   'But it hurts,' says Jasper.  His eyes still hold the last of his tears. The real waterworks are only minutes gone, the boundless, shameless wailing of a six-year-old.
   'Okay, well, to them you're a giant flower,' I say.  'You like flowers, right?  Pretend that.'
   'I won't!' he yells.  'It hurts!'
- "Beard of Bees," in The Book of Right and Wrong by Matt Debenham



Caryl Phillips was born in St.Kitts, West Indies, and brought up in Leeds. He is the author of numerous books of non-fiction and fiction. Dancing in the Dark won the 2006 PEN/Beyond Margins Award, and A Distant Shore won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize. His other awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Crossing the River, which was also short-listed for the Booker Prize. He has written extensively for the stage, television, and film, and is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines on both sides of the Atlantic. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of English at Yale University, and currently lives in New York City.

Matt Debenham's story collection The Book of Right and Wrong (published this year!) won the Ohio State University Press Prize for fiction and featured the Pushcart Prize-nominated title story "The Book of Right and Wrong." Matt holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Roanoke Review, The Pinch, Weston Magazine, Dogwood, Painted Bride Quarterly, and North Atlantic Review. A resident of Westport CT, he teaches in the UCLA Extension Writers' Program, writes a blog at http://www.mattdebenham.com/blog/ and twitters at http://twitter.com/debenham.


The Ordinary Evening Reading Series schedule for Fall 2010 includes readings on October 19, November 16, and December 14 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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