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Sept. 20, 2023, 7:30 p.m. | McCue Auditorium, Fannie Barrier Williams Liberal Arts Building
Edward Ashton is author of the novel Mickey7, now a motion picture directed by Bong Joon-ho and starring Robert Pattinson.
Edward Ashton is author of the novel Mickey7, now a motion picture directed by Bong Joon-ho and starring Robert Pattinson.
His other novels include Antimatter Blues, Three Days in April, The End of Ordinary, and Mal Goes to War, forthcoming in 2024. His short fiction has appeared in venues ranging from the newsletter of an Italian sausage company to Escape Pod, Analog, and Fireside Fiction. In addition to writing science fiction, he enjoys cancer research and teaching quantum physics. You can find him on Twitter @edashtonwriting or on Instagram @bucket_of_spiders.
Oct. 4, 2023, 7:30 p.m. | McCue Auditorium, Fannie Barrier Williams Liberal Arts Building
Matt Donovan is author of the poetry collection Dug-Up Gun Museum.
Matt Donovan is author of the poetry collection Dug-Up Gun Museum. A winner of the Whiting Award, a Rome Prize in Literature, and an NEA Fellowship, Donovan is also the author of a collection of lyric essays, A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Meditations on Ruin and Redemption. He is a frequent collaborator with his wife, the artist Ligia Bouton, and their exhibition Missing Department will be presented in the Tower Fine Arts Gallery this semester.
Co-sponsored with the Department of Art.
Oct. 18, 2023, 7:30 p.m. | McCue Auditorium, Fannie Barrier Williams Liberal Arts Building
Joss Lake’s Future Feeling was longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for a Debut Novel.
Joss Lake’s Future Feeling was longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for a Debut Novel. Kirkus Reviews called this novel, set in an alternate future, “a modern allegory with a unique voice—searching, questioning, vulnerable, witty.” Lake is a trans writer and educator based in New York City. He also runs a literary sauna series called Trans at Rest.
Co-sponsored with the Center for Gender & Sexual Diversity and the Department of Women & Gender Studies.
Nov. 8, 2023, 7:30 p.m. | Brockport Downtown, 161 Chestnut St, Rochester NY
The Ingersoll Reading: Allegra Goodman
Allegra Goodman is a New York Times bestselling author and a finalist for the National Book Award.
Allegra Goodman is a New York Times bestselling author and a finalist for the National Book Award. The New York Times called her latest novel, Sam, “A portrait of a girl at risk that shimmers with an unusual intimacy and depth.” The book is a Today Show / Read With Jenna Book Club selection. Goodman’s other novels include The Chalk Artist (winner of the Massachusetts Book Award), Intuition, The Cookbook Collector, Paradise Park, and Kaaterskill Falls. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Commentary, and Ploughshares and have been anthologized in The O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories.
Presented with the support of the Ingersoll Family Foundation.
Nov. 29, 2023, 7:30 p.m. | McCue Auditorium, Fannie Barrier Williams Liberal Arts Building
Writer’s Forum: John W. Holman
John W. Holman’s short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Oxford American, and The Sun.
John W. Holman’s short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Oxford American, and The Sun. TheIndependent (London) called his first book, Squabble and Other Stories, “a must-read.” He is the author as well of the novel Luminous Mysteries and the story collection Triangle Ray. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote of Holman’s work, ““Virtually every page carries some variation on the top-of-the-Ferris-wheel feeling a kid gets…. In Holman’s sublimely nuanced world, anticipation is everything.”