Acclaimed novelist Mary Gaitskill, the 2010 writer-in-residence at Vassar College, will give a public reading on February 10, 2010.
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY—Acclaimed author Mary Gaitskill, the 2010 writer-in-residence at Vassar College, will give a reading on Wednesday, February 10. Free and open to the public, the program will begin at 5:30pm in Sanders Hall, Spitzer Auditorium (Room 212).
Gaitskill is the author of two novels, Two Girls, Fat and Thin (1991) and Veronica (2005), which was a New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year, nominated for a National Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of three collections of short stories, Bad Behavior (1988); Because They Wanted To (1997), nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award; and Don’t Cry (2009), her most recent collection.
Of Don’t Cry, in her 22 March 2009 review in the Los Angeles Times, Irina Reyn noted that: “The stories . . . address unflinchingly the conflict between our actions and desires, our losses during war and peacetime, the charged dynamics between men and women.” Reyn said Gaitskill’s work “when distilled to its essence . . . is the literary equivalent of scratch marks from raking nails — lingering, throbbing, trailing blood.”
In addition to her collections, Gaitskill's stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2002.
Sponsored by the Department of English, the annual writer-in-residence at Vassar College is funded through a generous contribution of an anonymous donor. Every year the department sponsors a writer in residence who meets with various writing classes over a three week period and gives a lecture/reading.
Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations or information on accessibility should contact Campus Activities Office at (845) 437-5370. Without sufficient notice, appropriate space and/or assistance may not be available. Directions to the Vassar campus are available online at http://www.vassar.edu/visitors.
Vassar College is a highly selective, coeducational, independent, residential liberal arts college founded in 1861.
Gaitskill is the author of two novels, Two Girls, Fat and Thin (1991) and Veronica (2005), which was a New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year, nominated for a National Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of three collections of short stories, Bad Behavior (1988); Because They Wanted To (1997), nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award; and Don’t Cry (2009), her most recent collection.
Of Don’t Cry, in her 22 March 2009 review in the Los Angeles Times, Irina Reyn noted that: “The stories . . . address unflinchingly the conflict between our actions and desires, our losses during war and peacetime, the charged dynamics between men and women.” Reyn said Gaitskill’s work “when distilled to its essence . . . is the literary equivalent of scratch marks from raking nails — lingering, throbbing, trailing blood.”
In addition to her collections, Gaitskill's stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2002.
Sponsored by the Department of English, the annual writer-in-residence at Vassar College is funded through a generous contribution of an anonymous donor. Every year the department sponsors a writer in residence who meets with various writing classes over a three week period and gives a lecture/reading.
Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations or information on accessibility should contact Campus Activities Office at (845) 437-5370. Without sufficient notice, appropriate space and/or assistance may not be available. Directions to the Vassar campus are available online at http://www.vassar.edu/visitors.
Vassar College is a highly selective, coeducational, independent, residential liberal arts college founded in 1861.
Posted by College Relations Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Mary Gaitskill
The 2010 Writer-in-Residence
A Reading
February 10, 2010
Sanders Auditorium
5:30PM
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