[Englecturers] Readings by nonfiction candidates

[Steven Axelrod]

Hi all, 
 
Below please find a schedule of four upcoming presentations by distinguished
non-fiction writers who are candidates for a new faculty position in
Creative Writing.
 
These presentations are in addition to Writers Week. I encourage you to
catch one or more of the Writers Week presentations as well. Among other
speakers, Harvey Pekar will do a reading on February 17 at 7:30 PM in
University Theater. Francisco Aragon and Kimiko Hahn will be reading on
February 18 at 3:00 PM and 3:30 PM respectively at the Riverside Public
Library.
 
Graduate students please note: Any and all of these presentations will count
for 280 credit.
 
All my best,
 
Steve Axelrod
Professor of English
Director of Graduate Studies

Rigoberto Gonzalez of the University of Illinois (and a UCR creative writing
alumnus, currently completing a biography of  the late UCR Chancellor Tomas
Rivera) will speak 11 am-noon Thursday, Feb. 2,  in HMNSS 1614.  His memoir,
Butterfly Boy, will be published this year by the University of Wisconsin
Press. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2000 and a CHASS commencement keynote
speaker this past year (during the earthquake!).

Tom Lutz, acting director of the MFA program at Cal Arts and a University of
Iowa professor, is the author of, among others, Crying: The Natural &
Cultural HIstory of Tears (1999); American Nervousness, 1993: An Anecdotal
HIstory; and forthcoming this spring from Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Doing
Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers & Bums.  Other essays and
nonfiction work have appeared in Publishers Weekly, The Kirkus Review, The
New York Times, The New Yorker, The Economist, The Washington Post and The
American Scholar.  He speaks 10-11 am Thursday, Feb. 9 in HMNSS 1500.

David Bradley of the University of Oregon has published two novels, South
Street and the widely acclaimed The Chaneysville Incident (which won among
other awards a PEN/Faulkner award).  A Guggenheim fellow, Bradley has
published memoirs and other nonfiction work in Esquire, The Village Voice,
The New York Times  Magazine, The Nation, Redbook, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Magazine, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times and The Southern Review.
Bradley speaks 10-11 am Wednesday, Feb. 22 in HMNSS 1500.

Michael Stephens, will be joining us 10-11 am Thursday, March 2, also in
HMNSS 1500.  Stephens currently directs the M.A. in Creative Writing at
Kingston University in Leeds, England, where he also serves as a Senior
Lecturer and Writer-in-Residence.  An American citizen, he holds a MFA in
Creative Writing from Yale University, and a BA and MA in Creative Writing
and English from the City University of New York.  He is currently
completing his PhD at the University of Essex in the Department of
Literature, Film, and Theater Studies.  Professor Stephen has also taught at
the University of London (Queen Mary), Princeton University, Emerson
College, Columbia University, New York University, and Fordham University.
He has published 16 books, including six novels, five works of nonfiction,
five books of poetry and translation, as well as two plays.  Two of his
novels are The Brooklyn Book of the Dead (Dalky Archive, 1994) and Season at
Coole (Dutton, 1972), and his books of nonfiction include, Lost in Seoul
(Random House, 1990), Green Dreams: Essays under the Influence of the Irish
(University of Georgia Press, 1994), which was the winner of the 1994 AWP
Award in Nonfiction, and Where the Sky Ends: A Memoir of Alcohol and Family
(Hazeldon, 1999). 

For the Writers Week schedule, see
http://www.creativewriting.ucr.edu/writers_week/writers_week2006.pdf .
Nonfiction Day is Wednesday, Feb. 15th, and  a screening of the Harvey Pekar
biopic, American Splendor, will be announced.

 

 
 

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