Spring 2013
Riggio Forum: Sean Howe
Wednesday, February 6
Sean Howe is the author of Marvel Comics: The Untold Story. He is the editor of Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers!: Writers on Comics, the Deep Focus series of books on film, and former editor and critic at Entertainment Weekly. Howe’s work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Spin, and the Village Voice. Robert Polito, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Marco Roth
Wednesday, February 13
Marco Roth is the author of The Scientists: A Family Romance (2012, FSG). His awards include the 2011 Shattuck Prize for literary criticism and a Pew Fellowship of the Arts. Roth is the co-founder and editor of n+1, a literary magazine that publishes social criticism, political commentary, literary reviews, and fiction. His work has appeared in numerous journals and newspapers including Dissent, The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement and The Nation. Robert Polito, moderator.
Riggio Forum: William Gaddis
Wednesday, February 20
A celebration of Conjunctions’ and Dalkey Archive Press’s publication of the letters of William Gaddis. With Samuel R. Delany, Ben Marcus, Rick Moody, Francine Prose, and special guests. William Gaddis (1922–1998) is one of America’s most highly regarded writers, described by the New York Times Book Review as “a presiding genius . . . of postwar American fiction.” He is the author of the novels The Recognitions, J R (both Dalkey), Carpenter’s Gothic (Penguin), A Frolic of His Own (Scribner), and the posthumously published Agapē Agape (Penguin), as well as the 2002 essay collection The Rush for Second Place (Penguin). Both J R and A Frolic of His Own won the National Book Award; the latter was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Gaddis received a MacArthur award, and his work has been the subject of numerous critical studies.
Riggio Forum: Write What You Know with Victoria Brown & Amber Dermont
Monday, February 25
Victoria Brown, the author of Minding Ben was born in Trinidad and at sixteen came alone to New York, where she worked as a full-time nanny for several years. After attending LaGuardia Community College, she majored in English at Vassar, read Post-Colonial Literature at the University of Warwick, and earned an MFA in Fiction at Hunter College. She teaches English at LaGuardia.
Amber Dermont is the author of The Starboard Sea and the short story collection Damage Control. She is the recipient of a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts as well as fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Dermont’s work has appeared in the anthologies Best New American Voices, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, as well as numerous journals including Tin House, American Short Fiction, and Crazyhorse. She currently serves as an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Agnes Scott College. Tiphanie Yanique, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Tom Lutz
Tuesday, February 26
Tom Lutz is the author of, most recently, Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums; American Nervousness, 1903; Cosmopolitan Vistas; and Crying: A Natural and Cultural History of Tears. He has also written many shorter works in a variety of genres. He currently serves as editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, and teaches at University of California, Riverside. Robert Polito, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Lowell Handler
Monday, March 4
Lowell Handler will be reading from his e-book Crazy and Proud. www.crazyandproud.com. As the star, narrator, and associate producer of the Emmy-nominated PBS television documentary Twitch & Shout, Handler set the stage for his 1998 memoir, Twitch & Shout: A Touretter’s Tale. He is a former Black Star contract photographer-journalist whose pictures have appeared in Life, Newsweek, The (London) Sunday Times, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe among others. His other written work has appeared in The New York Observer, Health, and the American Psychological Association’s Contemporary Psychology. Robert Polito, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Write What You Don’t Know with Kiran Desai and Laren McClung
Monday, March 11
Kiran Desai is the author of The Inheritance of Loss, which won the 2006 Booker Prize. Her first book was Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. She’s been published in the New Yorker and Mirrorwork, an anthology of 50 years of Indian writing edited by Salman Rushdie. Laren McClung is the author of Between Here and Monkey Mountain. She’s been the recipient of a Goldwater Hospital Teaching Fellowship, a Teachers & Writers Collaborative Van Lier Fellowship, and a Veterans Writing Fellowship at NYU. McClung is coeditor of the anthology Inheriting the War. Tiphanie Yanique, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Lisa Cohen
Tuesday, March 12
Lisa Cohen is author of All We Know: Three Lives (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012). Her essays and poems have appeared in Fashion Theory, Bookforum, Vogue, Ploughshares, Boog City, Barrow Street, Lit, The Paris Review Daily, Newsday, the Voice Literary Supplement, and other journals and anthologies. Her interview with the biographer Michael Holroyd is forthcoming from The Paris Review. She teaches at Wesleyean University. Honor Moore, moderator.
Riggio Forum: The Inquisitive Eater
Monday, March 18
In celebration of The Inquisitive Eater’s one year anniversary, contributors to the online journal will read. This event is funded by a grant provided by the Dean’s Collaborative Fund. Hosted by the School of Writing. http://inquisitiveeater.com. Luis Jaramillo, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Marie Chaix and Harry Matthews
Thursday, April 4
Marie Chaix is the author of The Laurels of Lake Constance, translated by Harry Matthews. Born in Lyons and raised in Paris, she is the author of nine books, seven of them autobiographical, two of them novels. She became famous at the appearance of her her first work, The Laurels of Lake Constance, in which she retraces the life of her collaborationist father and that of her family during the postwar years. The Summer of the Elder Tree, a memoir and meditation on the theme of separation, was published in Paris in 2005, her first book to appear in fourteen years. The mother of two daughters by a first marriage, Marie Chaix is married to the writer Harry Mathews and spends half of each year in America and half in France. Born in Manhattan, Harry Matthews moved to France in 1953, and now spends half his life there and half in Key West. He is a poet and the author of six novels, and has translated three works by the French author Marie Chaix, his wife of many years, as well as Goerges Bataille’s Blue of Noon, Jeanne Cordelier’s The Life: Memoirs of a French Hooker, Raymons Roussel’s The Dust of Suns, and Georges Perec’s Ellis Island. Honor Moore, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Wayne Koestenbaum
Wednesday, April 17
Wayne Koestenbaum is the author of many books, most recently, the poetry collection Blue Stranger With Mosaic Background, as well as the nonfiction works The Anatomy of Harpo Marx and Humiliation. He is the winner of the “Discovery”/The Nation poetry contest, a recipient of a Whiting Writers’ award, and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle award. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center. Mark Bibbins, moderator.
Fall 2012
Riggio Forum: Stanley Crouch
Wednesday, September 12
Columnist for the New York Daily News and author of Kansas City Lightning, a biography of Charlie Parker. Greil Marcus, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Carmen Boullosa
Monday, September 24
The author of Leaving Tabasco and many other novels in Spanish. Jeffery Renard Allen, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Hilton Als
Wednesday, October 10
Theater critic of the New Yorker and author of The Women. Greil Marcus, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Leigh Stein
Tuesday, November 6
The author of The Fallback Plan. Luis Jaramillo, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Ann Powers
Wednesday, November 14
The correspondent for NPR music and author of Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America.
Greil Marcus, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Marybeth Hamilton
Wednesday, December 5
The author of In Search of the Blues: Black Voices. Greil Marcus, moderator.
Spring 2012
Riggio Forum: Eileen Myles
Tuesday, February 8
The author, most recently, of Inferno (a poet’s novel). Robert Polito, moderator.
Riggio Forum: James Miller
Wednesday, February 16
James Miller’s most recent book is Examined Lives: What We Can Learn from the Eminent Philosophers. He is a Professor of Political Science and Liberal Studies, The New School for Social Research. Robert Polito, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Jill Lepore
Monday, February 28
Historian and New Yorker staff writer, Lepore is the author most recently of The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History. Linda Tvrdy, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Dexter Palmer
Thursday, March 3
The author of The Dream of Perpetual Motion. Jeffery Renard Allen, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Susan Rosenberg
Wednesday, March 23
The author of the memoir An American Radical: Political Prisoner in My Own Country. Jackson Taylor, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Tiphanie Yanique
Monday, March 28
The author of How to Escape From a Leper Colony: A Novella and Stories. Jeffery Renard Allen, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Michael Gray
Wednesday, April 6
The author, most recently, of Hand Me My Travelin’ Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell. Robert Polito, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Heidi Durrow
Wednesday, April 27
The author of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, the host of the podcast Mixed Chicks Chat, and co-founder of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival. Jeffery Renard Allen, moderator.
Fall 2011
Riggio Forum: A.O. Scott
Wednesday, September 7
Film critic of The New York Times. Greil Marcus, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Gerald Early
Wednesday, October 12
The editor of The Sammy Davis Jr. Reader and author of The Culture of Bruising; Merle King Professor of Letters, Washington University, St. Louis. Greil Marcus, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Lynne Tillman
Tuesday, October 25
The author of Someday This Will Be Funny, and faculty member, Riggio Writing & Democracy honors program. Luis Jaramillo, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Dana Spiotta
Wednesday, November 9
The author of Stone Arabia: A Novel. Greil Marcus, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Lee Smith
Wednesday, December 7
The author of the short-story collection Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger. Greil Marcus, moderator.
Spring 2011
Riggio Forum: Eileen Myles
Tuesday, February 8
The author, most recently, of Inferno (a poet’s novel). Robert Polito, moderator.
Riggio Forum: James Miller
Wednesday, February 16
James Miller’s most recent book is Examined Lives: What We Can Learn from the Eminent Philosophers. He is a Professor of Political Science and Liberal Studies, The New School for Social Research.Robert Polito, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Jill Lepore
Monday, February 28
Historian and New Yorker staff writer, Lepore is the author most recently of The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History. Linda Tvrdy, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Dexter Palmer
Thursday, March 3
The author of The Dream of Perpetual Motion. Jeffery Renard Allen, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Susan Rosenberg
Wednesday, March 23
The author of the memoir An American Radical: Political Prisoner in My Own Country.Jackson Taylor, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Tiphanie Yanique
Monday, March 28
The author of How to Escape From a Leper Colony: A Novella and Stories. Jeffery Renard Allen, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Michael Gray
Wednesday, April 6
The author, most recently, of Hand Me My Travelin’ Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell. Robert Polito, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Heidi Durrow
Wednesday, April 27
The author of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, the host of the podcast “Mixed Chicks Chat,” and co-founder of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival. Jeffery Renard Allen, moderator.
Fall 2010
Riggio Forum: Mary E. Davis
Wednesday, September 22
Author of Classic Chic: Music, Fashion, and Modernis, short-listed for the Costume Society of America’s Millia Davenport Publication Award. In conversation with Greil Marcus.
Riggio Forum: Rattapallax 10th Anniversary
Friday, September 24
10th Anniversary celebration includes readings by Edward Hirsch, Eileen Myles, Rachel Zucker, Edwin Torres, and Idra Novey as well as a screening of poetry-based films from Cannes, Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals. Hosted by editor Flavia Rocha.
Riggio Forum: Bárbara Renaud González
Monday, September 27
The author of Golondrina, why did you leave me?, and an award-winning journalist, and activist. Jeffery Renard Allen, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Walter Mosley
Wednesday, October 13
Author of more than thirty books, most recently Known to Evil, in conversation with Greil Marcus.
Riggio Forum: Yunte Huang
Thursday, October 14
The author of the recent biography of Charlie Chan, Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History. Brenda Wineapple and Robert Polito, moderators.
Riggio Forum: Greil Marcus
Monday October 18
The author will read from his most recent book Bob Dylan Writings 1968- 2010.
Riggio Forum: John Edgar Wideman
Wednesday, October 27
The author of more than 20 works of fiction and nonfiction, including the award-winning Brothers and Keepers, Philadelphia Fire, and most recently the story collection God’s Gym. Jeffery Renard Allen, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Luc Sante
Wednesday, November 3
The author most recently of Folk Photography: The American Real-Photo Postcard 1905-1930 in conversation with Greil Marcus.
Riggio Forum: Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Monday, November 15
The author most recently of Apocalyptic Swing. Robert Polito, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Mary Gaitskill
Wednesday, December 8
Acclaimed author, most recently of the story collection Don’t Cry in conversation with Greil Marcus.
Spring 2010
Riggio Forum: Elizabeth Strout
Monday, February 8
The author of Olive Kitteridge, winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. Helen Schulman, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Pinsky, Poetry and Jazz
Friday, February 19
Robert Pinsky reads from his poems accompanied by jazz musicians.
Riggio Forum: Anne Waldman
Tuesday, February 23
Co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Colorado, and author of over 40 books of poetry, including most recently Manatee/Humanity. Robert Polito, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Women in Letters and Literary Arts
Monday, March 1
A reading and discussion with Cate Marvin and Erin Belieu, co-directors of WILLA(Women in Letters and Literary Arts) and Barrie Jean Borich, Amy King, Kekla Magoon, Natalie Bryant Rizzieri, Laurel Snyder, Susan Steinberg, and Anne Townsend. Mark Bibbins, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Cave Canem Celebrates National Poetry Month
Monday, April 12
Featuring award-winning poet Ed Roberson, along with emerging poets Kyle Dargan and Wendy S. Walters. Camille Rankine, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Gary Giddins
Wednesday, May 5
The distinguished music, film, book critic and author most recently of Jazz and Natural Selection. Robert Polito, moderator.
Fall 2009
Riggio Forum: A Conversation with Samuel R. Delany
Wednesday, September 16
Among many awards for his writing, Delany won the Stonewall Book Award for the novel Dark Reflections. Greil Marcus, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Sean Wilentz
Monday, October 26
Wilentz is the author of The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008 (2009), as well as a contributing editor at the New Republic and essayist for Newsweek and Rolling Stone. Greil Marcus, moderator.
Riggio Forum: A New Literary History of America
Wednesday, November 11
In celebration of the publication of A New Literary History of America, edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors. With contributors Farah Griffin, Ann Marlowe, Robert Polito, John Rockwell, and Stephanie Zacharek.
Riggio Forum: A Conversation with David Thomas
Wednesday, December 2
Thomas is a singer and the founder of legendary avant-rock band Pere Ubu. Greil Marcus, moderator.
Spring 2009
Riggio Forum: Cave Canem Poets on Craft
Tuesday, February 3
Award winning poets Myronn Hardy and Cathy Park Hong read from their work and engage in a lively conversation on craft. Camille Rankine, moderator.
Riggio Forum: 2nd Annual Ghana Writers’ Conference Reading
Tuesday, February 17
Colin Channer, Binyavanga Wainaina and Thomas Sayers Ellis will appear along with other acclaimed writers. Jeffery Renard Allen, moderator.
Riggio Forum: George Packer
Monday, March 2
Author of The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq and a contributor to The New Yorker. Helen Schulman, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Kevin Prufer
Tuesday, March 10
Author of National Anthem. Mark Bibbins, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Michael Dumanis
Tuesday, April 14
Author of My Soviet Union. Honor Moore, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Robert Polito and Guy Maddin
Monday, April 20
Robert Polito, reading from his new book of poems, Hollywood & God, with special guest film director Guy Maddin, who will be reading from his new book My Winnipeg.
Riggio Forum: Kyoko Mori
Wednesday, April 29
Author of A Dream of Water: A Memoir and Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures, and Shiziuko’s Daughter, a novel for young adults. Honor Moore, moderator.
Fall 2008
Riggio Forum: Ed Pavlic and Tyehimba Jess
Wednesday, September 3
Ed Pavlic, author of Winners Have Yet to Be Announced and Tyehimba Jess, author of leadbelly. Jeffery Renard Allen, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Inequality and American Democracy
Monday, September 8
A conversation with Lewis Lapham, Thomas Frank and Hamilton Fish.
Riggio Forum: Eisa Nefertari and Michael Thomas
Wednesday, September 10
Eisa Nefertari Ulen, author of Crystelle Mourning, and Michael Thomas, Man Gone Down. Jeffery Renard Allen, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Allan Michael Parker
Monday, October 13
Author of Elephants and Butterflies. Robert Polito, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Caryl Phillips
Tuesday, October 21
Author of Foreigners. Jeffery Renard Allen, moderator.
Riggio Forum: John Yau
Monday, December 1
Author of A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns. Robert Polito, moderator
Riggio Forum: Phillip Lopate
Tuesday, December 9
Author of Two Marriages. Robert Polito, moderator.
Riggio Forum: State by State
Thursday, December 12
Spring 2008
Riggio Forum: Peter Cameron
Monday, March 3,
Author of Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You. Helen Schulman, moderator.
Riggio Forum: John Edgar Wideman
Monday, March 10
Author of Fanon. Jeffery Renard Allen, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Terese Svboda
Monday, March 24
Author of Black Glasses Like Clark Kent. Robert Polito, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Elizabeth Samet
Tuesday, April 8
Author of Soldier’s Heart. An evening devoted to the subject of Poetry and War. David Lehman, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Nathaniel Mackey
Wednesday, April 9
Author of Four for Glenn. Robert Polito, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Cave Canem Presents Cornelius Eady
Thursday, April 23
A reading/signing of the poet’s new book, Hardheaded Weather.
Riggio Forum: Cave Canem Presents The Ringing Ear
Tuesday, April 29
A reading by Black poets on the South.
Fall 2007
Riggio Forum: David Thomson
Tuesday, September 25
Thomson, film critic, historian, and author mostly recently of The Whole Equation, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, and Nicole Kidman. Greil Marcus, moderator.
Riggio Forum: M.G. Vassanji
Wednesday, September 26
Vassanji, author of The Assassin’s Song. Jeffery Renard Allen, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Carrie Brownstein
Tuesday, October 2
Brownstein played guitar and sang in the band Sleater-Kinney. She is a writer, producer, and Oregon Humane Society volunteer of the year. Brownstein will read some recent writing, talk about music and culture, and answer questions about dog behavior. Greil Marcus, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Michael Lesy
Tuesday, October 9
Lesy is a photographic historian and archivist and author of Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties, Wisconsin Death Trip, Long Time Coming: A Photographic History of America, 1935-1943, and Angel’s World. Greil Marcus, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Joan Acocella
Monday, October 15
Acocella, author of Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints, and staff writer for the New Yorker. Robert Polito, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Harlem Writers Guild
Thursday, October 25
Grace Edwards, author of Do or Die; and Gammy Singer, author of A Landlord’s Tale, and K.C. Washington, author of Mourning Becomes Her.
Riggio Forum: Sasha Frere-Jones
Monday, November 5
Frere-Jones is a pop music critic for the New Yorker. Greil Marcus, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Nina Khrushcheva
Wednesday, November 7
Khrushcheva, author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics. Robert Polito, moderator.
Spring 2007
Riggio Forum: R.J. Smith
Wednesday, January 24
Author of The Great Black Way: L.A. in the 1940s and the Lost African-American Renaissance.
Riggio Forum: African Fiction in America, American Fiction in Africa
Bayo Ojikutu, author of Free Burning; Mohammed Naseehu Ali, author of The Prophet of Zongo Street and Doreen Baingana, author of Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe, read from and discuss their work. Jeffery Renard Allen, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Madhur Jaffrey
Wednesday, February 14
Author of Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India.
Riggio Forum: Richard Zenith
Monday, February 26
Translator of the poetry of Fernando Pessoa.
Riggio Forum: Lynne Tillman
Monday, March 5
Author of American Genius: A Comedy. Roberto Polito, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Peter Orner and Kiran Desai
Monday, April 9
Authors of The Second Coming of Mavala Shikingo and The Inheritance of Loss, respectively.
Riggio Forum: David Shields
Wednesday, April 25
Author discusses his forthcoming book, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, in which he argues for the excitement of works of indeterminate genre.
Riggio Forum: Luc Sante
Monday, April 30
Author of Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces from 1990-2005 and translator of Novels in Three Lives by Felix Feneon reads from and discusses both books.
Fall 2006
Riggio Forum: Michael Gray
Tuesday, September 5
Author presents the speech “Bob Dylan and the Poetry of the Blues.” Gray is the author of The Dylan Encyclopedia. Robert Polito, moderator.
Riggio Forum: September 11, 2001, Five Years Later
Monday, September 11
An evening of conversation and readings focused on the 5th anniversary of the events of September 11th, 2001, in collaboration with the National Book Foundation. Bob Kerrey, President of the New School, and member of the 9/11 Commission, Robert Polito, the director of the Writing Program, Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon, the co-authors of The 9/11 Report : A Graphic Adaptation, and Jay McInerney, author of The Good Life, among other writers and artists, and featuring the NBA nominated books, The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, and 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers.
Riggio Forum: Mary Gaitskill
Wednesday, September 13
Author of Veronica. Jeffery Renard Allen, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Francine Prose
Thursday, September 14
Author of Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for those who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them.
Riggio Forum: Calvin Baker
Monday, September 25
Author of Dominion. Jeffery Renard Allen, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Richard Siken
Tuesday, September 26
Author of Crush and winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award. Deborah Landau, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Edward Field
Monday, October 16
Author of The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag, and Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era. Robert Polito, moderator.
Riggio Forum: A Celebration of Marjorie Williams
Wednesday, November 1
Friends and admirers read from and discuss late Marjorie Williams’s book The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Family, Politics, and Fate. Helen Schulman, moderator.
Riggio Forum: David Kamp
Monday, November 13
Author of United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation. Helen Schulman, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Richard Zenith
Monday, November 27
Translator of the poetry of Fernando Pessoa. Robert Polito, moderator.
Riggio Forum: Readings from Paul Schmidt’s At the Stray Dog Cabaret
Wednesday, December 6
Honor Moore and others read from At the Stray Dog Cabaret, translations of Russian Modernist poems by Paul Schmidt.
Riggio Forum: David Truer
Wednesday, December 13
Truer reads from Native American Fiction, a book of essays, and The Translation of Dr. Apelles, a novel. Robert Polito, moderator.