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Visiting Writers Series
Visiting Writers Series
The reading by Jean Thompson on November 3rd has been cancelled due to illness. We hope to reschedule Ms. Thompson's visit to Otis, so please check back.
All readings begin at 7:30 p.m. and are free of charge, but seating is limited.
Ahmanson Hall Forum
The Otis Goldsmith Campus
9045 Lincoln Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA. 90045
FALL 2010 VISITING WRITERS SERIES
November 17: OTIS BOOKS Reading: Eric Anderson and Ari Samsky
Otis Books is proud to publish The Poetics of Trespass by Eric Anderson and The Capricious Critic by Ari Samsky.
Using his Denver apartment as a central locale, Erik Anderson walked out the letters of the word pastoral between February and March 2007 for The Poetics of Trespass, navigating the various curves and corners of the city streets, and therein charting the experiences of a poet in an urban landscape. Ari Samsky’s The Capricious Critic is a satirical look at modern society through the distorted lens of the absurd. Part cultural anthropologist, part reluctant wayfarer, Samsky—the capricious critic—rates and reviews everything from sentient genetically modified fruit to the efficiency of subway systems.
Erik Anderson’s critical and creative work has appeared in American
Letters & Commentary, Witness, The Laurel Review, The Poetry Project
Newsletter, Versal, and Rain Taxi, among other publications. A former
contributing editor at the Denver Quarterly, he co-edits the mail-art
magazine Thuggery & Grace. He lives
outside of Denver.
Ari Samsky was editor-in-chief of The Nassau Weekly at Princeton, where he earned a PhD in cultural anthropology. His research has taken him to Switzerland, France, and Tanzania. He has written short fiction and essays for several literary magazines, and he contributes regularly to the website Splice Today. He teaches at the University of Iowa, Iowa City.
December 8: Daniel Alarcón
Daniel Alarcón was born in Lima, Peru and currently lives in Oakland. He has taught at Mills College and California College of Art. His story collection, War by Candelight, was a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Award and his novel Lost City Radio won the 2008 PEN USA Award. Lost City Radio was translated into several languages, and the German translation won the International Literature Award from the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Alarcón’s fiction has been published in The New Yorker and Harper’s and his nonfiction in Salon and Eyeshoot. He has received fellowships from the Guggehnheim and Lannan Foundations, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and is an editor of the Peruvian magazine Etiqueta Negra.
| Past Visitors | ||
| Salar Abdoh Jane Alison Samina Ali J. Reuben Appelman Rae Armantrout Luigi Ballerini Amiri Baraka Bruce Bégout Aimee Bender Bill Berkson Jenny Boully Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Peter Cameron Mary Caponegro Ron Carlson Ann Cefola Neeli Cherkovski Jeff Clark Joshua Clover Wanda Coleman Gillian Conoley Eleanor Cooney Bernard Cooper Robert Crosson John D'Agata Donna de la Perrière Michael Davidson Ray DiPalma Timothy Donnelly Dolores Dorantes Ben Ehrenreich Gilad Elbom Kenward Elmslie Lynn Emanuel Steve Evans Percival Everett Sesshu Foster David Francis Forrest Gander Cristina Garcia Amy Gerstler Hal Glicksman Andrew Sean Greer David Groff Katharine Haake |
Adam Haslett Brooks Hansen Jack Hirschman Jen Hofer Anselm Hollo James Houston Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Brenda Hillman John Humble Christine Hume Samantha Hunt Lawson Fusao Inada Joanne Kyger David James Devin Johnston Pierre Joris Trevor Joyce Bhanu Kapil Norman Klein Bill Krohn Aaron Kunin Paul La Farge Ann Lauterbach Joseph Lease Ben Lerner Suzanne Jill Levine Sam Lipsyte Timothy Liu Michael Lowenthal Alvin Lu Lisa Lubasch Carol Maier Lewis MacAdams Barbara Maloutas Heather McGowan John Mc Manus Laura Moriarty Jennifer Moxley Ryan Murphy Maggie Nelson Monica Nepote Joseph O'Neill Ron Padgett |
Elio Pagliarani Michael Palmer Nicole Peyrafitte Claudia Rankine Tom Raworth Ishmael Reed Antonio Riccardi Elizabeth Robinson Stephen Rodefer Jerome Rothenberg James Sallis Hélène Sanguinetti Janet Sarbanes Leslie Scalapino Joanna Scott Hubert Selby Jr. Standard Schaefer Christine Schutt Aaron Shurin Jane Smiley Ersi Sotiropoulos Kevin Starr David St. John Nathaniel Tarn Frederic Tuten David Ulin Cecilia Vicuna Catherine Wagner D.J. Waldie Diane Ward Lawrence Weschler Marianne Wiggins Allyssa Wolf CD Wright Matthew Zapruder Ofelia Zepeda |
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