Please join us for a poetry reading with An Duplan and Julian Talamantez Brolaski in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 11

Photo credits: The Rumpus and Charles L. Sjölander

Nonfiction Writing Program graduate Mieke Eerkens will read from All Ships Follow Me: A Family Memoir.  "The confluence of conflicting war traumas fuels the emotional heart of Mieke Eerkens' insightful narrative. All Ships Follow Me is an excavation of the scars of war drawn from personal interviews, archival documents, and immersion in the physical and psychic spaces of the past. It is also an imaginative quest to understand how trauma influences generations, sometimes directly through...

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Roz Chast and Patricia Marx : WHY DON’T YOU WRITE MY EULOGY NOW SO I CAN CORRECT IT?: A Mother’s Suggestions

Every mother knows best, but New Yorker writer Patty Marx’s knows better. Patty has never been able to shake her mother’s one-line witticisms from her brain, so she’s collected them into a book, accompanied by full color illustrations by New Yorker staff cartoonist Roz Chast. These snappy maternal cautions include:

If you feel guilty about...

Erin McGraw will read from and talk about her new story collection Joy: and 52 Other Very Short Stories. "This quintessential collection of stories serves as an homage to the form while showcasing McGraw’s stunning talent and deep empathy for the idiosyncrasies, small joys, and despairs of human nature." ―Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Erin McGraw is also the author of six novels and story collections, including Lies of the Saints, The Baby Tree, and Better Food for a Better World. She...