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A Reading with Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer, Karen Russell

Thursday, April 11, 2024 8:00pm
Dey House
The Writers' Workshop presents a reading by Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer, Karen Russell. Karen Russell is the author of five books of fiction, including the NYT bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. She is a MacArthur Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow, and the two-time recipient of the National Magazine Award for Fiction, the Shirley Jackson Award, the 2023 Bottari Lattes Grinzane prize, the New Yorker's "20 under 40" award and the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" award...
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Q&A with James Patterson

Thursday, April 11, 2024 11:00am
Dey House
The Writers' Workshop presents a Q&A with bestselling author, James Patterson From https://www.jamespatterson.com/landing-page/about-james/ James Patterson is the most popular storyteller of our time. He is the creator of unforgettable characters and series, including Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club, Jane Smith, and Maximum Ride, and of breathtaking true stories about the Kennedys, John Lennon, and Tiger Woods, as well as our military heroes, police officers, and ER nurses. Patterson has...
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Ancient Exchanges presents Dan Beachy-Quick's The "All-Bell Cosmos" and the "Fundamental Eros"

Tuesday, April 9, 2024 5:30pm
Riverside Theatre
Poems that Think, Thoughts that Sing, and the Ongoing Practice of Ancient Poetics
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Live from Prairie Lights | Dan Beachy-Quick

Monday, April 8, 2024 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
The Ancient Exchanges speaker series presents poet and translator Dan Beachy-Quick, who will talk about his work. Dan Beachy-Quick's translations from ancient Greek include the lyric collection Stone Garland and The Thinking Root, a collection of fragments of early philosophy (both from Milkweed Editions), as well as most recently Wind--Mountain--Oak: The Poems of Sappho (Tupelo Press, 2023). Of his approach to translation, Beachy-Quick writes, "There are depths within the denotative life of...