Author to read his fiction on campus
Maria Burfiend
Issue date: 2/19/09 Section: Arts
Visiting author Jim Shepard will read some of his short stories and lecture on writing fiction from history and fact when he visits campus next week.
A professor of English at Williams College in Williamston, Mass., Shepard has written six novels and numerous short stories on a variety of topics ranging from Aesychulus to the bombing of Chernobyl and the Apocalypse. His most recent work, a collection of short stories entitled "Like You'd Understand, Anyway," published in 2007, was a finalist for the National Book Award and won The Story Prize.
He has won numerous other prestigious awards and his fiction has been published in including The Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and the New Yorker, among others.
He has a unique style of combining a variety of topics into a paradox of emotions, said Associate Professor of English John Somerville, the organizer of the Visiting Writer's Program.
He will read some of his short stories Monday in Phillips Auditorium at 8 p.m. Tuesday, he will present a lecture entitled "Letting the World Teach You: Making Fiction from History and/or Fact," at 8 p.m. in Dow Rooms A and B.
A professor of English at Williams College in Williamston, Mass., Shepard has written six novels and numerous short stories on a variety of topics ranging from Aesychulus to the bombing of Chernobyl and the Apocalypse. His most recent work, a collection of short stories entitled "Like You'd Understand, Anyway," published in 2007, was a finalist for the National Book Award and won The Story Prize.
He has won numerous other prestigious awards and his fiction has been published in including The Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and the New Yorker, among others.
He has a unique style of combining a variety of topics into a paradox of emotions, said Associate Professor of English John Somerville, the organizer of the Visiting Writer's Program.
He will read some of his short stories Monday in Phillips Auditorium at 8 p.m. Tuesday, he will present a lecture entitled "Letting the World Teach You: Making Fiction from History and/or Fact," at 8 p.m. in Dow Rooms A and B.
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