Mary Gaitskill joins the creative writing lecture series at Columbia University.

2 December, 2010
7pm
Dodge Hall, Room 502

Mary Gaitskill is the author of the novels “Two Girls, Fat and Thin” and “Veronica,” as well as the story collections “Bad Behavior” and “Because They Wanted To,” which was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner in 1998.  Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories.  Her novel “Veronica” was nominated for the National Book Award in 2005.  Her most recent book is the story collection titled “Don’t Cry.”  She will be a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library starting in September of 2010.

Mary Gaitskill interviewed in Bomb Magazine.

Jennifer Egan joins the creative writing lecture series at Columbia University.

21 October, 2010
7pm
Dodge Hall, Room 502

Jennifer Egan is the author of The Invisible Circus, which was released as a feature film by Fine Line in 2001, Emerald City and Other Stories, Look at Me, which was nominated for the National Book Award in 2001, and the bestselling The Keep.  Her new book, A Visit From the Goon Squad, was published in June.  Also a journalist, she writes frequently in the New York Times Magazine.

Jennifer Egan interviewed in Bomb Magazine.

Padgett Powell inaugurates the fourth season of creative writing lectures at Columbia University.

16 September, 2010
7pm
Dodge Hall, Room 413

Padgett Powell is the author of four novels, including Edisto, which was nominated for the National Book Award. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Esquire, and other publications, as well as in the anthologies Best American Short Stories and Best American Sports Writing. He lives in Gainesville, Florida, where he teaches writing at MFA@FLA, the writing program of the University of Florida.  His most recent novel is The Interrogative Mood.

Padgett Powell interviewed in The Believer.

The Creative Writing Lecture Series.

D.A. Powell  joins Columbia’s Creative Writing Lecture Series for a a craft talk, The Sniff of the Real.

Columbia University School of the Arts
Dodge Hall 413, 8:15 pm
Free and open to the public.

Map to Dodge Hall

D. A. Powell is the author of Tea, Lunch and Cocktails. The latter was a finalist for the Lambda and the National Book Critics’ Circle Awards. Powell’s honors have included fellowships from the Millay Colony, the National Endowment for the Arts and the James Michener Foundation, as well as a Pushcart Prize, the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America and an Academy of American Poets Prize. In reviewing Cocktails, the New York Timessaid of D. A. Powell “No accessible poet of his generation is half as original, and no poet as original is this accessible.”

Powell’s most recent book is Chronic (Graywolf, 2009). Along with David Trinidad and a cast of hundreds, he is the co-author of By Myself: An Autobiography (Turtle Point, 2009).

D. A. Powell’s work appears in numerous anthologies, including Norton’s American Hybrid, Legitimate Dangers: Poets of the New Century and Best American Poetry 1998. His recent poems appear in Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, New England Review and A Public Space.

Powell has taught at Columbia University, the University of Iowa’s Iowa Writers’ Workshop and New England College. A former Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard University, he now teaches full-time in the English Department at University of San Francisco.

Wayne Koestenbaum  joins Columbia’s Creative Writing Lecture Series for a a craft talk, Bulge, Glaze, Pause, Shock.

Wayne Koestenbaum has published five books of poetry: Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, Model Homes, The Milk of Inquiry, Rhapsodies of a Repeat Offender, and Ode to Anna Moffo and Other Poems. He has also published a novel, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes, and five books of nonfiction: Andy Warhol, Cleavage, Jackie Under My Skin, The Queen’s Throat(a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist), and Double Talk. His newest book, Hotel Theory, a hybrid of fiction and nonfiction, was published in 2007. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center, and also a Visiting Professor in the painting department of the Yale School of Art.

Columbia University School of the Arts
Dodge Hall 413, 7pm
Free and open to the public.

Map to Dodge Hall

Lydia Davis joins Columbia’s Creative Writing Lecture Series for a a craft talk, A Beloved Duck Gets Cooked.

Philosophy Hall, 7pm
Free and open to the public.

Lydia Davis, a 2003 MacArthur Fellow, is the author ofVARIETIES OF DISTURBANCE, which was a National Book Award Finalist, SAMUEL JOHNSON IS INDIGNANT, ALMOST NO MEMORY, THE END OF THE STORY, and BREAK IT DOWN, a PEN/Hemingway finalist. Her new book, THE COLLECTED STORIES OF LYDIA DAVIS, has just been published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Her work has appeared inConjunctions, Harper’s, The New Yorker, Bomb, The Paris Review, Tin House, McSweeney’s, NOON, and many other magazines and literary journals. Davis is also the translator from the French of works by Maurice Blanchot and Michael Leiris, among others, as well as the highly-acclaimed new version of Marcel Proust’sSWANN’S WAY, for Penguin Classics. Among other honors, she has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lannan Literary Prize, and has been named Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Government. In 2003, she won the French-American Translation Prize for her Proust translation, and in 2005 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She lives in upstate New York with her family and teaches at SUNY Albany, where she is also a Fellow of the New York State Writers Institute. She is currently finishing a new translation of Gustave Flaubert’s MADAME BOVARY.

Lydia Millet joins Columbia’s Creative Writing Lecture Series for a a craft talk, Writing at the End of the World.

Lydia Millet is the author of six novels, most recently How the Dead Dream (2008), and one story collection, Love in Infant Monkeys (2009). Her fifth novel, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, was shortlisted for Britain’s Arthur C. Clarke Prize; her fourth, My Happy Life, won the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction. Millet is also an essayist and critic. She lives in the desert outside Tucson, Arizona, with her husband and two small children, where she works as a writer and editor for a group that protects endangered species.

Columbia University School of the Arts
Thursday, April 22
Dodge Hall 501, 7pm
Free and open to the public.

Map to Dodge Hall