Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series
Phone: 317-940-9861
Price: Free.
7:30 p.m. Jan. 31
Atherton Union Reilly Room
Chuck Klosterman is The New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs; Eating the Dinosaur; and The Visible Man, and also writes The Ethicist column for The Times.
Major Jackson
7:30 p.m. Feb. 4
Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall
Major Jackson is an American poet, professor and the author of three collections of poetry: Holding Company and Hoops, both finalists for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry, and Leaving Saturn, winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Award Circle.
Laura Kasischke
7:30 p.m. Feb. 27
Clowes Memorial Hall Krannert Room
Poet/novelist Laura Kasischke teaches in the MFA program at the University of Michigan. Her books of poetry include Wild Brides, Fire and Flower, Dance and Disappear, Gardening in the Dark, Lilies Without, and Space, in Chains, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Jennifer Egan
7:30 p.m. March 20
Atherton Union Reilly Room
Jennifer Egan won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and the LA Times Book Prize for her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad. She is also the author of The Invisible Circus, a novel which became a feature film starring Cameron Diaz in 2001.
Albert Goldbarth
7:30 p.m. April 1
Robertson Hall Johnson Board Room
Acclaimed for its dense, expansive form and linguistic energy, Albert Goldbarth’s poetry covers everything from historical and scientific concerns to private and ordinary matters. A prolific writer, he has published more than a dozen collections of poetry—including Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology and Saving Lives.
Julianna Baggott
7:30 p.m. April 17
Robertson Hall Johnson Board Room
Critically acclaimed bestselling author Julianna Baggott has published 18 books over the last 10 years, including the bestseller Girl Talk, The Madam, and The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted for adult readers, and The Anybodies Trilogy and The Prince of Fenway Park for younger readers.
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