Readings to attend at least one of

Gang,

There are the only two fiction readings in the Visiting Writers Series this fall (see bottom of this post), and I'd like you to attend a fiction reading. Amherst Books, though, lists many other readings on their website, several fiction ones for October. In order to spare yourselves the last minute panic, please consider going to a reading (if you recall, you all have to attend one and write a short response to it) before, say 11/15. You can find Amherst Books' October listings here and November ones here.

UMass Readings:

The Visiting Writers Series at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (some events held at the University Gallery, some at memorial hall - see schedule is
pleased to announce the Fall 2007 schedule of readings. For more than 40 years,
the VWS has brought outstanding poets and writers to the university campus for
public readings of new work.

Joanna Scott
Sunday, October 4, 8pm, University Gallery
JOANNA SCOTT is the author of seven novels, including Liberation, Tourmaline,
Make Believe, The Manikin, and Arrogance, and two collections of short fiction,
Various Antidotes and Everybody Loves Somebody. Her books have been finalists
for the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN-Faulkner, and the LA Times Book Award. Awards
include a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim
Fellowship, the Ambassador Book Award from the English-Speaking Union, and the
Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is the
Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English at the University of Rochester.

Sam Michel
Thursday, November 8, 8 PM at University Gallery
Sam Michel is the author of a short-story collection, Under the Light, and a
novel, Big Dogs and Flyboys, to be published this October. He has taught at
Phillips Academy, Andover, and in the graduate writing programs at the
University of Florida and the University of Massachusetts. He divides his time
between Massachusetts and Montana, where he writes and builds rock walls.