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2011-2012 Season
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< Fall 2011 Spring 2012 >
All events are free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible. |
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Photo by Rosanne Olson
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Rae Armantrout
Rae Armantrout is the author of eleven books of poetry, including the forthcoming Money Shot, and the 2009 collection Versed, which received both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her collection Next Life was a New York Times Notable Book of 2007. She is the recipient of awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and Professor of Poetry and Poetics at U.C. San Diego.
February 15, 7pm: Reading and book signing. MLK Library 225/229
February 16, 1pm: In Conversation with Juliana Spahr. MLK Library 225/229 |
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Photo by Randi Lynn Beach
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Yiyun Li
The James D. Houston Memorial Lecture
Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing and emigrated to the U.S. in 1996. She is the author of the story collections A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, and the novel The Vagrants. Named by The New Yorker as one of the top 20 writers under 40, Li has received the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and the California Book Award, as well as a 2010 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
March 7: Mt. Pleasant High School
March 7, 7pm: Reading and book signing. ENGR 189
In honor of James D. Houston, California author and former Lurie Distinguished Visiting Writer at SJSU, an annual lecture was established in 2009 to bring emerging writers from diverse ethnic backgrounds to San Jose.
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Julia Scheeres
The 2012 Lurie Distinguished Visiting Writer
Julia Scheeres is the author of the bestselling memoir Jesus Land, which won the Alex Award from the American Library Association and the New Visions Nonfiction Book Award. Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Wired News, and L.A. Weekly. Her second book, A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception and Survival at Jonestown, will be published in October.
Co-sponsored by the Department of English and Comparative Literature
March 21, 7pm: Reading and book signing. MLK Library 225/229
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Juan Felipe Herrera
Juan Felipe Herrera is a poet, playwright, young-adult novelist and children's-book author, actor and performance troupe founder. Born in the farm town of Fowler, CA, he went on to earn graduate degrees from UCLA, Stanford, and the Iowa Writers Workshop. Author of twenty-eight books in various genres, and various musicals, Herrera has been awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN USA and PEN Open Book Awards, and the International Latino Award in Poetry.
Co-sponsored by REED
April 4: Mt. Pleasant High School
April 4, 7pm: Reading and book signing. MLK Library 225/229
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Geoffrey Wolff
The Martha Heasley Cox Lecture
Geoffrey Wolff is the author of six novels, including Providence and The Age of Consent; biographies of Harry Crosby, John O'Hara, and Joshua Slocum; and two memoirs, including The Duke of Deception, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is the recipient of awards from the N.E.A., the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim Foundation. A former book critic for The Washington Post, Wolff directed the Graduate Program in Writing at U.C. Irvine from 1995-2006.
April 17, 7pm: Reading and book signing. MLK Library 225/229
April 18, 1pm: In Conversation with Tobias Wolff. MLK Library 225/229
Through a generous donation from Martha Heasley Cox, this annual Lecture was established. Past lecturers include Toni Morrison, Norman Mailer, E. L. Doctorow, and Maxine Hong Kingston.
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Andrew Sean Greer
Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of four works of fiction, most recently The Story of a Marriage and The Confessions of Max Tivoli. His stories have appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, and The New Yorker, and he has received the O. Henry Prize, the Northern California Book Award, the California Book Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, and fellowships from the N.E.A. and the New York Public Library.
Co-sponsored by REED
September 14: Mt. Pleasant High School
September 14, 7 pm: Reading and book signing. ENGR 189 |
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Photo by Andi Olsen
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Melanie Rae Thon
A Litquake South Bay Event!
Melanie Rae Thon's most recent books are the new novel The Voice of the River and In This Light: New and Selected Stories. She is also the author of three previous novels and two story collections. Thon has received a Whiting Writers Award and two fellowships from the N.E.A. and her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize Stories, and O. Henry Prize Stories. Originally from Montana, she now teaches at the University of Utah.
October 11, 7pm: Reading and book signing. MLK Library 225/229
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Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket)
Daniel Handler is the author of the novels The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth, Adverbs, and the forthcoming novel for teens, Why We Broke Up. He also wrote far too many books as Lemony Snicket, including 13 Words, a collaboration with Maira Kalman, and the screenplays for the films A Series of Unfortunate Events, Kill the Poor, and Rick. Handler lives in San Francisco with his wife and child.
Co-sponsored by The Stage and Hicklebee's
October 26, 4pm: An Afternoon of Stories and Slides @ The Stage
October 26, 7pm: Reading and book signing. ENGR 189 |
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Camille Dungy
Camille Dungy is the author of three collections of poetry, including Smith Blue, winner of the 2011 Crab Orchard Open Competition, and the editor of the anthology Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. A recipient of the Northern California Book Award and the Dana Award, Dungy has received fellowships from the N.E.A., the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and others. She teaches at San Francisco State University.
November 8: Mt. Pleasant High School
November 8, 7pm: Reading and book signing. MLK Library 225/229
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The 2011-2012 Steinbeck Fellows
Kirstin Chen and John T. Newman will read from work in progress.
Co-sponsored by The Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies.
December 7, 7pm:, Reading. MLK Library 225/229
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