Reading

Please join us on Monday at 4:15 in Downey Lounge to celebrate the publication of Clifford Chase’s THE TOOTH FAIRY, a formally inventive new memoir that the LA Review of Books has described as a “keen, nonjudgmental” collection “of moments both profound and common, universal and singular, mournful and hilarious,” and Newsday has called “a powerful meditation on memory itself.”

Cliff will read from the book and sign copies, which will be available for purchase.

Please join us for a reading by new creative writing faculty:

Novelist SALVATORE SCIBONA  

And poet TONYA FOSTER

 Wednesday, September 25th at 8 pm

Russell House  350 High Street

 Salvatore Scibona’s first novel, The End, was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Young Lions Fiction Award from the New York Public Library.  His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, The New Yorker, and he was among The New Yorker‘s list of “20 Under 40” writers to watch. He has received a Whiting Writers’ Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and he is a Visiting Writer in Wesleyan’s English Department.

Tonya Foster‘s collection of poetry, A Swarm of Bees in High Court, is coming out this fall from Belladonna/Futurepoem Books. She is also co-editor of Third Mind: Creative Writing Through Visual Art. The recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship and a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, she is an associate at the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College and a Visiting Writer in Wesleyan’s English Department.

 Reception and book signing to follow the reading.

For more information, please call 860.685.3448 or visit http://www.wesleyan.edu/writing/community/writing-events.html.