HAMILTON ‘ Writer Kelly Cherry will participate in the 1999 Living Writers series at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø on Thursday, October 7. After an early afternoon conversation in class with students, she will give a free public reading from her book of stories, The Society of Friends, at 4:30 p.m. in the Ho Lecture Room, Lawrence Hall.
In The Society of Friends, Cherry offers a profound glimpse into contemporary life in Middle America. The collection of stories centers around Nina Bryant, a writer, professor, dog owner, and adoptive mother living in Madison, Wisconsin.
The author of more than a dozen books of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, including the critically acclaimed memoir, The Exiled Heart and Writing the World, Kelly Cherry is Eudora Welty professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Cherry’s novel Augusta Played, hailed by Fred Chappell as ‘a major comic classic . . . One of the funniest books ever written,’ was recently reissued. Her work has also been published in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and The Pushcart Prize.
Coming later in this semester’s Living Writers series are Amy Bloom on Oct. 21, Jane Urquhart on Oct. 28, Chang-rae Lee on Nov. 4, Jim Crace on Nov. 11, John Holman on Nov. 18, Ha Jin on Dec. 2, and a publishing forum on Dec. 9 Readings start promptly at 4:30 p.m. and are held in the Ho Lecture Room, 105 Lawrence Hall. For information contact the Department of English at 228-7262.
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