READINGS
MARCH 19 AT 7PM, THE NATIONAL ARTS CLUB
15 Gramercy Park South
Jim Shepard, Wayne Koestenbaum and Dawn Raffel
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Jim Shepard will read from Like You’d Understand, Anyway. “. . .razor-sharp wit and an elephantine heart”— in short, [Shepard is] one of the most powerful talents at work today. —Rick Bass. Wayne Koestenbaum will read from Hotel Theory. "[Koestenbaum] one of the most original and relentlessly obsessed cultural spies writing today. . . [with] hilarious and brilliant clarity. —John Waters. Dawn Raffel reads from Further Adventures in the Restless Universe. "[Raffel] is a writer of obvious and extreme talent" —The Los Angeles Times.
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APRIL 14 AT 6:30 PM, The Mercantile Library
17 East 47th Street
In Support of NOON 2008:
Clancy Martin
Dawn Raffel
Christine Schutt
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
"North of the Middle" and "Steam" in the Brooklyn Rail, November '07
"No Place on Earth" in Opium, March '07
"Love" and "The Interruption" in The Rake, January '07 http://www.rakemag.com/
"Near Taurus," O, The Oprah Magazine, July '06
"Her Purchase"--Web Conjunctions http://www.conjunctions.com/webconj.htm
"The Alternate Palace"--"Lost" magazine http://www.lostmag.com/issue3/palace.php
"Flesh, Blood"--The Hunger Mountain Review (print)
"All Along the Silk Road"--Fence (print)
"Our Heaven"--The Mississippi Review Prize Anthology (print)
"Seven Spells"--Open City (print)
ABOUT THE NOVEL "CARRYING THE BODY"
@"Raffel's writing snatches the breath out of your body and engages you in untangling the mystery of this family."--USA Today
@"Extreme literature."--Publisher's Weekly
@"Exquisite prose and a keen unflinching eye for the subtleties of familial disintegration."--The Review of Contemporary Fiction
@"Dawn Raffel is a writer of genuine originality and integrity."--Robert Coover
ABOUT "IN THE YEAR OF LONG DIVISION"
@"A writer of obvious and extreme talent"--the LA Times
@"Raffel has the ability to turn the tiniest details into poetry."--Publisher's Weekly
@"As it has been with every new writer of intricate beauty and substance, so it must be with Dawn Raffel, a writer who is, in Gerard Manley Hopkins's words, 'spare, original, strange.' Here again is the joy of wonderment, of first discovery--a book to ponder, to read and reread, to share with other lovers of literature, to give as a gift--which is what In the Year of Long Division was to me."--Tillie Olsen
CONTACT ME:
Dawn@Raffel.name
