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The Millsaps Visiting Writers Series, curated by Assistant Professor of English Dr. Steve Kistulentz, brings to campus outstanding writers from a broad spectrum of experience and talent. Each visit features a craft talk or lecture, followed by a public reading.
All events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Dr. Kistulentz at 601-974-1305, mailto:writers@millsaps.edu.
Kistulentz has shaped the Visiting Writers Series so that the writers and writing presented defy categorization. "The most interesting and vivid writing today is done by people who are engaged with the culture across a multitude of levels," Kistulentz said.
This event has been postponed - check back for more information!
Thursday, April 5, 7:30 p.m. - POSTPONED
Matt Bondurant, author of the new novel "The Night Swimmer" and "The Wettest County in the World"
Millsaps College Academic Complex, room 215
Matt Bondurant was born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia. He received his B.A. and M.A. in English from James Madison University, then went on to earn a Ph.D in English & Creative Writing from Florida State University. He is the author of three novels, The Third Translation (Hyperion 2005), The Wettest County in the World (Scribner 2008), and The Night Swimmer (Scribner 2012), as well as numerous published stories, poems, essays, and reviews.
His second novel, The Wettest County is currently being made into a film by Director John Hillcoat (The Road) starring Shia Labeouf, Tom Hardy, Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska, Gary Oldman, and Guy Pearce, to be released in 2012.
Matt's short fiction has appeared in journals such as Prairie Schooner, The New England Review, and Glimmer Train, among others, and in 2008 he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Matt's poetry was recently featured in Ninth Letter, The Notre Dame Review, and other journals, as well as anthologized in Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft, the most widely adopted creative writing text in America. His reviews and essays have appeared in journals such as The Southeast Review and The Northern Virginia Review, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Bondurant will read from his new novel The Night Swimmer and take questions from the audience. Visit his website at http://www.mattbondurant.com.
Wednesday, March 28, 7:30 p.m.
Singers, Songs, and Writers: An Evening with Rick Moody, John Wesley Harding, and Joe Pernice
Millsaps College Academic Complex Recital Hall
THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT.
Tickets are free to Millsaps faculty, staff, and students; general admission seats are $10 for the general public.
Order tickets online.
Rick Moody is the author of five novels, two story collections, and Right Livelihoods, a collection of novellas. His work includes the novel The Ice Storm, which brought widespread acclaim, became a bestseller, and was made into a feature film directed by Ang Lee. He is a member of the musical group the Wingdale Community Singers.
The Washington Post called the novella The Albertine Notes "one of the best stories to appear in the new millennium; it underscores that Rick Moody is one of our best writers." His new book is a collection of essays on music called On Celestial Music.
Wesley Stace is a writer and musician. Under the name John Wesley Harding, he has released 17 albums over the past two decades, most recently The Sound of His Own Voice. He is also the author of three widely-acclaimed novels, the most recent of which, Charles Jessold, Considered As A Murderer, made the Wall Street Journal and the Chicago Sun Times' Top Ten Novels of the Year. He is also the creator and host of the Cabinet of Wonders, at New York City's City Winery, where he brings music and writing together. He was born in England, graduated from Cambridge, and moved to the U.S. in 1991. He lives with his wife and two children in Philadelphia.
Goodbye, Killer by Pernice Brothers is Joe Pernice's first band album since 2006's Live a Little. In several weeks-long bursts of work over the course of a couple of years, in between writing a novel, recording a soundtrack for said novel, touring on both, and doing real-life things, Joe, his brother Bob, and long-time collaborators James Walbourne (Pretenders, Son Volt, Peter Bruntnell) and Ric Menck (Matthew Sweet, Velvet Crush) holed up in an attic in Boston and recorded these 10 Pernice originals.
Over a 15-year career in music, Pernice has made 13 full-length records. He began in the mid-90's, with Scud Mountain Boys, who released two albums (Pine Box and Dance the Night Away, later compiled as The Early Year) before signing to Sub Pop and releasing Massachusetts, considered by many to be an alt-country masterpiece. In 1998, Pernice disbanded the Scuds and assembled Pernice Brothers, recording Overcome By Happiness (Sub Pop), called "a startling slice of beauty" by The New York Times and "A thing of pernicious beauty indeed" by The Irish Times. In 1999 and 2000, he released two records, under the names Chappaquiddick Skyline and Big Tobacco.
In 2009 Joe Pernice published his first novel, It Feels So Good When I Stop (Riverhead/Penguin), and Ashmont released a soundtrack of the same name, more or less, featuring Pernice covering songs referenced in the novel. (A novella, Meat is Murder, was published by Continuum Books in 2003, as part of their popular 33 1/3 series. It remains one of the bestselling books in the series).
Goodbye, Killer is a versatile album that's trademark Pernice. Performed by Joe Pernice, James Walbourne, Ric Menck and Bob Pernice. Recorded and mixed at Upper Ashmont Studios by Bob Pernice. Mastered by Jeff Lipton and Maria Rice at Peerless Mastering. Cameos by Laura Stein (vocals), John Felock (bass), Elizabeth Cheever (trombone).
Join us for an evening of reading and singing. Sponsored by the Visiting Writers Series The event is a ticketed event. Tickets are $10 for the general public and free to Millsaps students with ID. Ticket information will be finalized soon.
Wednesday, February 22, 4 p.m. (please note special time)
Author Charles Baxter
Millsaps College Academic Complex, room 215
Charles Baxter is the author of 5 novels, 5 collections of short stories, 3 collections of poems, and 2 collections of essays on fiction. His most recent book, released in February, is Gryphon: New and Selected Stories.
He was born in Minneapolis and attended Macalester College in Saint Paul. After completing graduate work in English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, he taught for several years at Wayne State University in Detroit. In 1989, he moved to the Department of English at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and its MFA program. He now teaches at the University of Minnesota.
This reading is sponsored by the Eudora Welty Foundation Millsaps College Partnership.
Thursday, February 23, 4:30 p.m.
Poet Tom Sleigh
Millsaps College Academic Complex, room 215
Tom Sleigh's books include After One, winner of the Houghton Mifflin New Poetry Prize; Waking, a finalist for the Lamont Poetry Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award; The Chain, finalist for Lenore Marshall Prize; The Dreamhouse, finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award; Far Side of the Earth, an Honor Book Award from the Massachusetts Society for the Book; Bula Matari/Smasher of Rocks; a translation of Euripides' Herakles; a book of essays, Interview With a Ghost; and Space Walk, winner of the $100,000 2008 Kingsley Tufts Award.
He has also received the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America, a Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, the John Updike Award and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an Individual Writer's Award from the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His new book, Army Cats, was published this spring from Graywolf Press. He teaches in the MFA Program at Hunter College and lives in Brooklyn.
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