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That's All Folks! 13 Jul 2011 | 06:35 am
After five fabulous seasons, the Ordinary Evening Reading Series is ending. It's been an amazing time. We've met wonderful writers and had wonderful audiences show up every month, rain or snow or shin...
Rescheduled! - April 5: Annie Murphy Paul and Carl Zimmer 24 Mar 2011 | 12:54 am
Annie Murphy Paul's most recent book is Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of our Lives. A magazine journalist and book author who writes about the biological and social sciences...
April 26: Eleanor Lerman and Gail Mazur 23 Mar 2011 | 01:21 am
Eleanor Lerman's most recent collection of poems, The Sensual World Re-Emerges was published by Sarabande Press in 2010. It has been nominated for three awards: ForeWord's Book of the Year (poetry), T...
March 15: Michael Alienikov and Daniel Swift 22 Feb 2011 | 06:03 am
Michael Alenyikov’s first book, Ivan and Misha, was called “Highly Recommended” by the Library Journal, while Booklist praised its “sweetness, compassion, and great beauty.” Michael’s short stories ha...
The Ordinary Evening Reading Series Announces its Spring 2011 Season 16 Feb 2011 | 04:23 am
The Ordinary Evening Reading Series starts its 2011 Spring Series on Tuesday January 18th -an ordinary evening -at 7PM in the Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room (272 College Street, New Haven). We're excited t...
February 15: Edith Pearlman and Elizabeth Ziemska 26 Jan 2011 | 05:09 am
Reviewing Edith Pearlman’s Binocular Vision on the front page of the January 14th New York Times Book Review, Roxana Robinson wrote that in Pearlman’s stories “we’re caught up in a stream of beguiling...
December 14: Phillip Lopate and Cynthia Zarin 23 Nov 2010 | 04:27 am
Phillip Lopate was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1943, and received a BA from Columbia in 1964, and a doctorate from the Union Graduate School in 1979. The most recent of his many books is At the End ...
November 16: Paul Beckman and Mark Wunderlich 16 Nov 2010 | 04:55 am
Paul Beckman is a real estate salesman, writer, snorkeler, traveler and photographer. His most recent collection is the chapbook Maybe I Should Sit Quietly In A Dark Room For A While, published by Sil...
October 19: Ruth Lepson and Joanna Smith Rakoff 22 Sep 2010 | 05:14 am
Ruth Lepson is poet-in-residence at the New England Conservatory of Music and has been collaborating with jazz musicians and a few classical ones in recent years. Her books of poems are Dreaming in Co...
Caryl Phillips and Matt Debenham 31 Aug 2010 | 08:15 am
Caryl Phillips was born in St.Kitts, West Indies, and brought up in Leeds. He is the author of numerous books of non-fiction and fiction. Dancing in the Dark won the 2006 PEN/Beyond Margins Award, and...
