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2008
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David
Bajo
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Tuesday, November 13, 2008, Law School Auditorium 6:00 pm
David
Bajo’s debut novel, The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri, was
published in 2008 in the US and will appear in ten other
countries in 2009. The Los Angeles Times says “Bajo
uses words and equations to the point of poetry,
particularly when he evokes the world created by Cervantes.”
The Minneapolis Star Tribune says of Irma Arcuri:
“The book invokes the metaphysical spirit of authors
Bajo clearly admires -- Borges, Kundera, Cervantes, to name
a few -- and it's loaded with intertextual high jinks,
doppelgangers, artistic and carnal seduction and elegant
mathematical equations. Think of it as Eastern European
beach reading: a sexy book that's about everything, yet
above all about the act (Act? Art!) of reading itself.” And
The Providence Journal describes his work as
“mystical, sensual and finally haunting . . . demanding a
second reading, an intimate de-coding, a search for
revelations, epiphanies, secrets, a sorcerer’s stone.” Bajo
is an assistant professor of creative writing at The
University of South Carolina. He has published several short
stories and has also worked as a journalist and translator.
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Louise Gluck
Photo by Sigrid Estrada |
Tuesday, November 18, 2008, Law School Auditorium 6:00 pm
Louise Glück is the author of numerous books of poetry,
including The Seven Ages (Ecco Press, 2001); Vita
Nova (1999), winner of The New Yorker Magazine’s
Book Award in Poetry; Meadowlands (1996); The Wild
Iris (1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the
Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award;
Ararat (1990), for which she received the Rebekah
Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; and The
Triumph of Achilles (1985), which received the National
Book Critics Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary
Press Award, and the Poetry Society of America's Melville
Kane Award. She has also published a collection of essays,
Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1994), which
won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. A chapbook,
October, was published by Saraband Books in 2003.
Glück’s tenth book of poetry is Averno (Farrar,
Straus, Giroux), which
was nominated for the National Book Award in 2006 and was
listed by The New York Times Book Review as
one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year. Her honors also
include the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Lannan Literary
Award for Poetry, Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize (Wellesley,
1986), M.I.T. Anniversary Medal (2000), the L.L. Winship/PEN
New England Award (2007), and fellowships from the
Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, and from the
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David Baldacci
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Thursday, November 20, 2008, Law School Auditorium 6:00 pm David Baldacci currently
lives in Virginia, where he
was
born in 1960. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in
political science from Virginia Commonwealth University and
a law degree from the University of Virginia. He later
practiced law for nine years in Washington, DC, as both a
trial and corporate attorney. He has published thirteen
novels:
The Camel Club;
Absolute Power; Total Control; The Winner; The Simple Truth;
Saving Faith; Wish You Well; Last Man Standing; The Christmas Train;
Split Second;
Hour Game; The Collectors . His debut novel in his young adult series,
Freddy and the French Fries: Fries Alive! He has also
published a novella entitled
Office Hours
for Holland's Year 2000 "Month of the Thriller."
Baldacci authored a short story, "The Mighty Johns," as part
of a mystery anthology published in 2002. His works have
been in numerous magazines, newspapers, journals, and
publications worldwide. |
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September 23, 2008