Stubborn Twig Author Lauren Kessler
Nov 18, 2009, 7:30 PMTaylor Auditorium in Marsh Hall
In her newest book, Kessler directs her trademark honest and elegant storytelling to the stormy world of teenage girls and their mothers. Come hear this funny and insightful writer open another window on life in America.
Lauren Kessler is the author of five works of narrative nonfiction, including Pacific Northwest Book Award and Oregon Book Award winner Dancing with Rose (published in paperback as Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer’s), Washington Post bestseller Clever Girl and Los Angeles Times bestseller The Happy Bottom Riding Club — which David Letterman, in fierce competition with Oprah, chose as the first (and only) book for the Dave Letterman Book Club. Kessler appeared twice on his late-night show. She is also the author of Stubborn Twig, which was chosen as the book for all Oregon to read in honor of the state’s 2009 sesquicentennial.
Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, O magazine, Utne Reader, The Nation, newsweek.com and salon.com. She is a national speaker and workshop leader. The founder and editor of Etude, the online magazine of narrative nonfiction, she directs the graduate program in literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon.
Upcoming in Pacific University's Visiting Writers Series:
Bonnie Jo Campbell Thursday, February 18, 2010
A prize-winning poet and novelist, Bonnie Jo Campbell’s energy and biting wit make her work laugh out-loud funny and dazzling. You’ll recognize your family members, the former coworkers from those odd jobs you once had, and the ex-spouse who still haunts you. All is weird, immediate and raw in Campbell’s stories and poems. Reading and hearing her work is like white water rafting on the most beautiful and dangerous river you can find. You hold on tight and see how far she will take you.
Claire Davis Thursday, March 11, 2010
Claire Davis' stories and novels have received numerous awards and earned her the honor of being the Oregonian Book Club’s featured author. Her hard-biting prose and unwavering honesty make her fiction and nonfiction capture what it means to be human. Her writing is finely made and full of surprises. We see ourselves in her characters and pull hard for her to show them surviving their mistakes - which they sometimes do. Davis always tells a great story with stunning craft and delivery. When she reads aloud audiences have been known to listen so hard they forget to breathe
All readings in Pacific’s Writers Series are free and take place at 7:30 p.m. at Taylor Auditorium in Marsh Hall on Pacific’s Forest Grove campus. Authors’ books are for sale after the event.
http://silkroad.pacificu.edu/writersseries.html
Contact Prof. Kathlene Postma at post9396@pacificu.edu for more information.
Posted by Kathlene Postma (Kathlene_Postma@pacificu.edu) on Nov 5, 2009 at 10:42 AM
