SLU Writers Series
The St. Lawrence University Writers Series 2008-2009
BILL MCKIBBEN
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 8 P.M. Eben Holden
Bill McKibben’s newest book is a collection of essays, The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life. He is the author of a dozen nonfiction books, among them The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Economies and the Durable Future. A former staff writer for The New Yorker, he writes regularly for Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New York Review of Books, among other publications. In April 2007 he organized the Step It Up national day of rallies, the largest global warming protest to date. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. Mr. McKibben will also deliver a lecture at 10:10 AM in Gulick Auditorium on Deep Economy and will facilitate a conversation on the climate change movement at 2:20 PM in Eben Holden.
JENNIFER BRICE
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 8 P.M. SYKES COMMON ROOM
Jennifer Brice is the author of Unlearning to Fly, a memoir about growing up in Alaska and learning to pilot a small plane, and The Last Settlers, a work of literary journalism about homesteaders in Alaska. Her work has appeared in such journals as the Gettysburg Review, Manoa, and River Teeth. She teaches creative writing at Colgate University.
STANLEY MOSS
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8 8 P.M. SYKES COMMON ROOM
Stanley Moss’s previous collections include New and Selected Poems 2006, A History of Color, Asleep in the Garden, The Intelligence of Clouds, The Skull of Adam, and The Wrong Angel. He was educated at Trinity College and Yale University. He makes his living as a private art dealer, largely in Spanish and Italian Old Masters, and is the publisher and editor of The Sheep Meadow Press, a non-profit press devoted to poetry.
JENNIFER EGAN
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13 8 P.M. SYKES COMMON ROOM
Jennifer Egan is the author of the novels The Keep, a New York Times Notable Book; Look at Me, a finalist for the National Book Award; The Invisible Circus; and Emerald City and Other Stories. She has published fiction in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's, and Ploughshares, and her journalism appears frequently in the New York Times Magazine. Ms. Egan is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and she was recently a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
RICHARD RUBIN
Viebranz Professor of Creative Writing
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2 8 P.M. SYKES COMMON ROOM
Richard Rubin is the author of the memoir Confederacy of Silence: A True Tale of the New Old South. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian and The Atlantic Monthly. His New York Times Magazine article “The Ghosts of Emmett Till” was included in The Best American Crime Writing 2006. He also published fiction in several magazines and journals, including The Oxford American, The Southern Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review.
LAWRENCE HILL
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2 8 P.M. SYKES COMMON ROOM
Lawrence Hill is the author of the novels Some Great Thing, Any Known
Blood and the memoir, Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and
White in Canada. His recent novel, published as The
Book of Negroes in Canada and as Someone Knows My Name in the U.S.,
was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Rogers Writers’
Trust Fiction Prize. His most recent non-fiction work is The Deserter’s
Tale: the Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq (written with Joshua
Key). Mr. Hill is also a recipient of
the National Magazine Award for the best essay published in Canada, and the American
Wilbur Award for best national television documentary.
CATHY PARK HONG
THURSDAY, MARCH 5 8 P.M. SYKES COMMON ROOM
Cathy Park Hong is the author of two poetry collections, Translating Mo'um and Dance Dance Revolution, which was chosen for the Barnard Women Poets Prize and was published in 2007 by WW Norton. Hong is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Village Voice Fellowship for Minority Reporters. Her poems have been published in American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Verse, Poetry, Paris Review, and Public Space, and she has reported for the Village Voice, The Guardian, and Salon. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. Her reading is supported by the Sandra P. Nelson Memorial Poetry Fund.
DAVID SHIELDS
THURSDAY, APRIL 2 8 P.M. SYKES COMMON ROOM
David Shields is the author of ten books, including The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead, and Reality Hunger: A Manifesto. His other books include Black Planet, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Remote, winner of the PEN/Revson Award; and Dead Languages, winner of the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. A senior editor of Conjunctions, Shields has published essays and stories in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Village Voice, Yale Review, Salon, Slate, McSweeney’s, and Believer. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim fellowship and the National Endowment for the Arts.
THOMAS MCGUANE
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 8 P.M. SYKES COMMON ROOM
Thomas McGuane’s most recent book is Gallatin Canyon, a short story collection. He is the author of nine novels, among them The Cadence of Grass, Panama, Ninety-Two in the Shade, Nothing but Blue Skies, and The Bushwhacked Piano. He has also published another story collection, three essay collections, and has written for film and television. Mr. McGuane lives in Sweet Grass County, Montana, and is an avid fisherman.
For more information:
Natalia Singer, Professor of English, St. Lawrence University,
Canton, NY 13617; 315-229-5898 nsinger@stlawu.edu
or Charlotte Ward, Office Manager, Department of English, 315-229-5125,