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2010-2011 Season
Downloadable Schedule
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Except where noted, all events are free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible. |
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Eric Puchner
Eric Puchner is the author of the novel Model Home and the story collection Music Through the Floor, a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at Claremont McKenna College.
September 15: Mt. Pleasant High School
September 15, 7pm: Reading and Book Signing. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Rm 225-229 |
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The CLA All-Stars: 25 Years of San Jose's Center for Literary Arts
Join Litquake, San Francisco's annual literary festival, and the CLA as we celebrate 25 years bringing writers of exceptional voice and vision to the Bay Area. Readings by Maxine Hong Kingston, Daniel Alarcón, Kim Addonizio, Andrew Sean Greer, and Mary Roach.
October 3, 6:30 pm, California Historical Society, 678 Mission St., San Francisco (V.I.P. reception @ 5:30 pm)
Tickets $5-25. Please visit www.litquake.org
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Lan Samantha Chang
The James D. Houston Memorial Lecture
A Litquake South Bay Event!
Lan Samantha Chang is the author of the novels All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost and Inheritance, and the story collection Hunger. She is the recipient of fellowships from Stanford University, Princeton University, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She lives in Iowa City, IA, where she is the Director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
October 6, 7pm: Reading and book signing. MLK Library 225/229
October 7: Mt. Pleasant High School
In honor of James D. Houston, California author and former Lurie Distinguished Visiting Writer at SJSU, an annual lecture was established in 2009 to bring emerging writers from diverse ethnic backgrounds to San Jose. |
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Carl Phillips
Carl Phillips is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Speak Low and Double Shadow (2011); and Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry. Three-time finalist for the National Book Award, his awards and honors include the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Theodore Roethke Award, the Thom Gunn Award for Best Gay Male Poetry, and awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Academy of American Poets, to which he was named a Chancellor in 2007.
Co-sponsored by the Poets & Writers Coalition.
October 20, 7pm: Reading and book signing. MLK Library 225/229
October 21, 1pm: In Conversation with Camille Dungy. University Theatre |
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The Center for Literary Arts & MACLA Present: An Evening with Maggie Estep
Poet, fiction writer, and spoken-word artist Maggie Estep is the author of seven books including Diary of an Emotional Idiot, Soft Maniacs, and Alice Fantastic, as well as the CDs No More Mr. Nice Girl and Love Is a Dog from Hell. She has performed on MTV, HBO's Def Poetry Jam, and Charlie Rose, and her work has appeared in The Best American Erotica, The Village Voice, Harpers Bazaar, SPIN, and Time Out NY.
Co-sponsored by the Poets & Writers Coalition.
November 16, 7pm: Reading and performance. University Theatre
November 17: Mt. Pleasant High School |
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The 2010-2011 Steinbeck Fellows
Julie Reynolds and Leah Griesmann will read from work in progress. Co-sponsored by The Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies.
December 1, 7pm: Reading. MLK Library, 5th Floor Schiro Room |
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Rebecca Solnit
Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of twelve books, including A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, Storming the Gates of Paradise, and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lannan Literary Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. She is a contributing editor of Harper's and frequent contributor to Tomdispatch.com.
February 8, 7pm: Reading and book signing. MLK Library 225/229
February 10, 1pm: In Conversation with Malcolm Margolin. MLK Library 225/229 |
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Jasmin Darznik
Jasmin Darznik is the author of The Good Daughter, a memoir of Iran, where she was born. A former Steinbeck Fellow at SJSU, she is the recipient of the Tanenbaum Award and the Marin Art Council's New Work Fellowship in Creative Prose. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The San Francisco Chronicle.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Steinbeck Studies, the Iranian American Studies Initiative, and the Student Association for Middle Eastern Studies.
February 23: Mt. Pleasant High School
February 23, 7pm: Reading and book signing. MLK Library 225/229
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E. L. Doctorow
The Martha Heasley Cox Lecture
E. L. Doctorow is the author of eleven novels, two story collections, two books of essays, and a stage play. His books include Ragtime, Homer and Langley, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, Lives of the Poets, and The March. Winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. His work has been published in thirty-two languages. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, and teaches at New York University.
Co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program and the Department of English and Comparative Literature.
March 23, 7pm: Reading and book signing. Concert Hall/School of Music
March 24, 1pm: In Conversation with Andrew Altschul. University Theatre
Through a generous donation from Martha Heasley Cox, this annual lecture was established. Past lecturers include Toni Morrison, Norman Mailer, William Styron, and Kirin Desai.
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Tony Barnstone
Tony Barnstone's books of poetry include Tongue of War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki, winner of the John Ciardi Prize in Poetry; The Golem of Los Angeles, which won the Benjamin Saltman Award in Poetry; Sad Jazz: Sonnets; and Impure: Poems by Tony Barnstone. He is a distinguished translator of Chinese poetry and literary prose, and the recipient of the Grand Prize of the Strokestown International Poetry Festival and fellowships from the NEA and California Arts Council. He teaches at Whittier College.
April 13, 7pm: Reading and book signing. Hal Todd Theater
April 14: Mt. Pleasant High School
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Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is the author of the novels Ms. Hempel Chronicles, finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and Madeleine Is Sleeping, finalist for the National Book Award. The recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, she was recently named to the "20 Under 40" list of contemporary writers to watch by The New Yorker.
April 27: Mt. Pleasant High School
April 27, 7pm: Reading and book signing. MLK Library 225/229
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