PAGLIA HEADLINES FALL EVENTS WITH WRITERS, EDITORS
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Binghampton University
September 14, 2006 Volume 28, No. 4
The fall slate of literary activities from the Binghamton Center for
Writers focuses on faculty and alumni readings, as well as workshops
and conversations with journal and press editors.
Headlining this season’s events will be social critic and intellectual
Camille Paglia, an Endicott native and Binghamton graduate. Paglia,
this year’s Milton Kessler D i s t i n g u i s h e d Reader, will
speak at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17, in the Anderson Center Chamber
Hall. The event is free and open to the public; a book signing and
reception will follow.
The first event of the season will be a conversation with Stanley
Barkan, editor and publisher of Cross-Cultural Communications, from
1:30-3:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 18, in PSPC-C. With browsing categories
like Armenian, Beat and Cheyenne, Cross-Cultural Communications
fulfills its claim of specializing in the rare and hard-to-find.
Opening the Readers’ Series will be novelist Tom Bailey, who will
speak at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19, in S1-149. Bailey, a Binghamton
graduate, is the author of The Grace That Keeps This World, published
in hardcover by Random House in 2005 and newly in paperback. Bailey’s
first novel centers on a community in the Adirondacks during the days
leading up to hunting season. Bailey is also the author of Cotton Song,
forthcoming from Random House, and a collection of short stories,
Crow Man, as well as A Short Story Writer’s Companion.
October events include a poetry reading by new faculty member Joe
E. Weil at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10, in S1-149 and a Writing Life event
from 1:30- 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18, in PSPC-C with Jeffrey Levine
of Tupelo Press, publishers of poetry and literary fiction.
>>From Oct. 19-21, Binghamton graduate students will hold
Writing By Degrees, their ninth annual national creative writing
conference at the Decker Mansion in Binghamton, with featured
writers Steve Almond, Timothy Liu and Suzanne Paola. Many of
those events are free and open to the public. For details, visit
http://writingbydegrees. binghamton.edu.
Two November events close out the season.
Christine Gelineau, associate director of the Center for Writers,
will read from her collection of poetry at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14,
in S1-149.
Paul Ruffin of Texas Review Press, which publishes fiction, poetry and
prose non-fiction as well as the literary magazine The Texas Review,
will finish out the Writing Life series for the fall with a 1:30-3:30
p.m. event on Thursday, Nov. 16. The location for that event has not
been announced.
All of the events are free and the community is invited
to attend. Directions to the various rooms and further
information on the series and the writers can be found at
http://english. binghamton.edu/cwpro.
The Writing Life Series is supported by the Office of the Dean of
Harpur College, while the Binghamton University Alumni Association
supports the Readers’ Series.