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Chang-rae Lee

Join us on Thursday, February 9, 7 pm in the Dell Brown room of Turner Hall, for a fiction reading by Chang-rae Lee.

Chang-rae Lee is the author of the novels Native Speaker (1995), A Gesture Life (1999), Aloft (2004), and most recently, The Surrendered, which was a 2011 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the American Book Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, ALA Notable Book of the Year Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Literary Award, the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, and the NAIBA Book Award for Fiction. Having emigrated to the United States from Korea at the age of three, Lee says he is "fascinated by people who find themselves in positions of alienation or some kind of cultural dissonance." Lee is a Professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, where he teaches creative writing.

  

 

Winter 2012

Featured Books

"In this collection of linked stories, Barry Kitterman (MFA '81) brings the dusty, fertile San Joaquin Valley vividly to life--a land of orange groves and religious revivals, where the mountains rise high on either side, marking the limits of the characters' lives. Kitterman writes with a plainspoken grace, showing men and women who face poverty, disappointment, and loneliness with a quiet daily courage and goodwill."--Heidi Jon Schmidt, author of The House on Oyster Creek Available through Southern Methodist University Press.

 

My Life As Laura by Kelly Kathleen Ferguson

My Life as Laura: How I Searched for Laura Ingalls Wilder and Found Myself    

by Kelly Kathleen Ferguson (MFA '08). Available at Press 53.

“Hilarious, perceptive and true, a homespun story as genuine as the ones that inspired it." --Judy Blunt, bestselling author of Breaking Clean

 

 

Notes on Sea & Shore by Greta Wrolstad   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notes on Sea & Shore is among the finest artistic achievements of the late Greta Wrolstad (1981 - 2005). Wrolstad attended the University of Montana's Creative Writing Program, where she served as the poetry editor of CutBank. Among her honors are inclusion in Best New Poets 2007, a scholarship from Fence Books to attend the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia, and a 2008 Pushcart Prize for "Flickers of Light Become the Movement of Thousands." Her poems have appeared in The Canary, Black  Warrior Review, A Public Space, Octopus Magazine, and CutBank. This sequential poem is a deep, stirring meditation that moves freely between internal and external landscapes. The voice in this work sings from a world in flux, and it does so with a rare, lyrical mastery. This long-awaited volume marks the first publication of Wrolstad's poetry in book form. 

Order Notes on Sea & Shore from Tavern Books.

 

Animal Time by Greg Pape

Greg Pape (Professor of Poetry) has released his latest book, Animal Time, with Accents Publishing.

I used to believe that Greg Pape's intimate knowledge of everything that lives and breathes or gives light was earned sleeping beneath the stars at night, but these poems prove that he is everywhere all at once just like the wind. And we know the wind never sleeps... Brilliant beautiful cinematic gems. I still love Coleman and the deer, but I think the rooster poems have become my new favorites.- Frank X Walker, Author of Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride