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Visiting Writers Series announces fall lineup |
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Thursday, 16 August 2007 |
by MILLIE TOLLESON
Associate Editor for Editorial
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Students and community members interested in meeting an array of award-winning authors will have a chance to do so this fall thanks to the Hughlene Bostian Visiting Writers Series.
Paul Cuadros, author of “A Home on the Field: How One Championship Team Insprires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America,” is the first guest of the series on Sept. 6.
“A Home on the Field” was also chosen as the summer reading program book for incoming freshmen.
Cuadros will speak at Fall Convocation Sept. 6 at 10 a.m. in the Holmes Convocation Center.
Cuadros will also deliver a presentation that evening at 7:30 p.m. in
Table Rock Room in Plemmons Student Union as part of the series.
Susan Weinberg, the fall coordinator for the series, said the evening reading will be different than the convocation speech.
“We ask them to read some of the main selection, but also their other work,” Weinberg said.
Cuadros is an investigative reporter who has “written about immigration, poverty and economics,” Weinberg said.
“This is more geared toward readers and writers. It’s a chance for people to see other sides of his writing,” Weinberg said.
Weinberg also hopes those who attend will be able to relate to the topics he writes about.
“We are very excited because his writing is about North Carolina and an area that people will know well,” Weinberg said.
"This is more geared toward readers and writers. It’s a chance for people to see other sides of his writing."
-Susan Weinberg,
fall coordinator for the series
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When arranging the line-up of the series, Weinberg said the group tries
to secure at least one or more guests from the Southeast region and at
least one Appalachian author.
“We like for the series to be somewhat predictable so people know what
to expect,” Weinberg said. “The program is really stable in the way
we’ve set it up.”
The series includes five authors in the fall semester and five in the spring.
It also features “craft talks” – a separate event with the author “for
people who are interested in how the work is made,” Weinberg said.
Weinberg hopes the convenience of the new library parking deck to the
location of the readings in the student union will draw larger crowds
to the events.
Other guest authors planned for the fall 2007 semester include Nino Ricci, Robert Morgan, Doris Davenport and Sydney Lea.
Novelist Ricci will speak as the second guest of the series on Oct. 4 at 7:30 p.m.
Ricci will also present a craft talk at 3:30 p.m. the same day to
discuss the writing of her works, which include “Lives of the Saints”
and “In a Glass House.”
Morgan, the third guest, is a poet and novelist, as well as the current
Rachel Rivers-Coffey Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at
Appalachian.
Morgan will present his new book titled “Boone: A Biography” on Nov. 8.
Performance poet Davenport, who was the Carol Grotnes Belk
Distinguished Lecturer at Appalachian in 2006, will present on Nov. 15.
Davenport’s past work includes “Madness like Morning Glories” and “A Hunger for Moonlight.”
Lea, a poet and essayist, is the final guest of the fall semester series on Nov. 29.
Lea is the founder of The New England Review and focuses much of her work on the New England area.
Lea’s work titled “Pursuit of a Wound” was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2001.
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