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Beattie Stallings [fiction (poetry)] Geoff Dyer [fiction] uDSWACX GF Cole tk wednesday, November 19 wednesday,Wednesday, April April 30 15 Duhamel Wednesday, November 13 2014-2015 Aleksandar Hemon (fiction) RachelStudent Kushner Readings (fiction) Levin AX Watkins DFCQWTyoi &David Dean Ferry Young [poetry (poetry)] &[ ChancellorJohn Yau (poetry)Green Rotunda Jamaica Kincaid [fiction] 5:15 p.m.] wednesday, April 29 fCIOPL Powell tQSeiBeattie wednesday,Wednesday, December December 11 10 Monday, May 5 Reading Series Student Readings Student Readings Student Reading Thesis Readings in Poetry, SUILGBVNOICUYOPRTWIjpkba (Chancellor Greens Rotunda) (Chancellor Green Rotunda) [Chancellor Green Rotunda Screenwriting, and Translation 5:15 p.m.] MOnday,[Palmer House May] 4 Wednesday,Tuesday, October February 1221 ThesisWednesday, Readings May in 7 Poetry, wednesday, october 15, 2014 Screenwriting, and Translation Wednesday, September 25, 2013 DeniseKevin Young Duhamel delivers [poetry the] Thesis Readings in Fiction Reading by: Theodore H. Holmes ’51 (Chancellor Green Rotunda) Tejuand BerniceCole [fiction Holmes] Lecture [Palmer House] Reading by Hodder Fellows: (James M. Stewart ‘32 Theater) wednesday, May 6 Thesis Readings in Fiction KatyBen DiddenLerner [(poetry)poetry] all readings take place at 4:30 (Chancellorp.m. at the GreenBerlind Rotunda) Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center unless noted otherwise StevenAdam Ross Millhauser [fiction] (fiction) all readings take place at 4:30 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre, McCarter ReadingsTheatre Center are free unless and open noted to theotherwise public. readings are free and open to the public. Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center for more about the program in creative writing visit the Berlind Theatre arts.princeton.eduFor more about the Program in Creative Writing visit princeton.edu/arts McCarter Theatre Center ben lerner Steven millhauser Introduced by Paul Muldoon Introduced by Chang-rae Lee Photo by Matt Lerner by Photo Lionstar Michael by Photo Lerner’s sonnet sequence, The Steven Millhauser is the author Lichtenberg Figures, won the Hayden of numerous works of fiction Carruth Award, was chosen by including Edwin Mullhouse: The Library Journal as one of the 12 Life and Death of an American best poetry books in 2004, and was Writer, 1943-1954, by Jeffrey a Lannan Literary Selection. His Cartwright; Portrait of a Romantic; poetry has also been included in the From the Realm of Morpheus; anthologies Best American Poetry, and Martin Dressler: The Tale New Voices, and 12x12: Conversations of an American Dreamer, which in Poetry and Poetics. was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1997. His short story collection, Born in 1943 in New York City, Also a fiction writer and essayist, Dangerous Laughter, was a New Millhauser grew up in Connecticut Lerner’s novels include Leaving York Times Book Review Best Book and received a B.A. from Columbia the Atocha Station and 10:04. He of the Year in 2008. His most recent University. He currently teaches at earned a B.A. in political science and collection, We Others: New and Skidmore College, where he serves as Selected Stories, won the Story the Tisch Chair in Arts and Letters. Ben Lerner is the author of several an M.F.A. in creative writing from Prize and was a finalist for the He lives in Saratoga Springs, New full-length poetry collections, Brown University. He has served as PEN/Faulkner Award. In awarding York. including Mean Free Path and a Fulbright scholar in Madrid and the Story Prize the judges called We Angle of Yaw, which was a finalist as a Guggenheim fellow. Currently Others “a powerful and intriguing for the National Book Award and Professor of English at Brooklyn collection of stories, marked by the Northern California Book College, he lives in Brooklyn, New page after page of beautifully Millhauser will be introduced Award. Noting his use of “arresting York. written, intelligent and sensitive by Chang-rae Lee, author of the lines that are comical, anxious and recent novel On Such a Full Sea prose.’’ hauntingly true,” Boston Review and the Pulitzer Prize finalist The critic Craig Morgan Teicher Surrendered, and Professor of Lerner will be introduced by Paul Millhauser is a recipient of the described Lerner’s aim in Angle Creative Writing at the Lewis Center. Muldoon, Pulitzer Prize-winning Lannan Award and has been of Yaw to “juxtapose discordant poet, Professor of Creative Writing honored by the American Academy elements of noise such that their and Director of the Princeton Atelier of Arts and Letters. His work collective racket cancels each at the Lewis Center, and Princeton’s has been translated into fifteen component out, leaving behind a Howard G.B. Clark ’21 University languages. His story “Eisenheim language purged by negation— Professor in the Humanities. the Illusionist” was the basis of the refreshed, defiant, and wholly self- 2006 filmThe Illusionist. aware.”.