Foreign Policy Managing Editor Yoshi Dreazen discusses his The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War.
Nicholas Rombes will read from his debut, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing.
Rombes is Professor of English at University of Detroit Mercy. He is author of Ramones from the 33 1/3 series and the book 10/40/70. His writing has appeared in The Believer, Filmmaker Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, n+1, and The Rumpus.
RC Writers Tea, open to majors and current writing students who are non majors, and current students interested in the writing major. In RC’s Greene Lounge. (Next tea: December 9)
Barbara Winton discusses her biography of her father, If It’s Not Impossible: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton.
Catherine Barnett is the author of two collections of poetry: Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced and The Game of Boxes, which was the recipient of the 2012 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Writers’ Award. She also works as an independent editor and as Writer-in-Residence at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan where she teaches writing to mothers in the shelter system. Barnett has been the Visiting Poet at Barnard College and teaches at the New School and New York University.
Jeffrey Shotts is Executive Editor at Graywolf Press, an independent publisher of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He acquires and edits Graywolf’s poetry list as well as works of nonfiction, essay, literary criticism, and translation. Authors whose titles Shotts has acquired have received the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature, and books he has acquired and edited have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, among other distinctions. He lives in Minneapolis.
Literati will be on-site with select titles for sale.
Room location in Angell Hall is TBD.
Music historian James Grymes discusses Violins of Hope, his book about Amnon Weinstein, the Israeli violin maker who has devoted the past 20 years to restoring violins played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust.
Literati is pleased to help launch issue 5.5 of literary journal Harlequin Creature with a very special listening party. That’s because issue 5.5 of the journal is, in fact, a viynl record.
Tickets can be purchased online at http://bit.ly/NZPNAA14
Students are invited to “tap the keys” of a typewriter during this all-day event. Sponsored by UEA and Fiction Writers Review.
