Car may not be the word. Automobile is long outdated and car seems to be going or to have already gone the same way, although it is perhaps still appropriate for this particular vehicle, a red '59 Cadillac convertible with a front seat wider than a porch swing, a cumbersome white top, and the makings of history in its various grills, bumpers, fins, and chrome ornaments.

To tell the story of this car is to tell the
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—Sallie Bingham, from Red Car

Lia Purpura is interviewed in Orion.

The Lambda Literary Foundation has awarded Brian Leung its Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize.

T Fleischmann's Syzygy, Beauty is reviewed in the Star Tribune.

06-05-2012
You Have Given Me a Country

Kentucky Great Writers Series Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning 251 West Second Street Lexington, Kentucky 40507
7:30 pm Reading from You Have Given Me a Country and Same Sun Here With Cynthia Ellingsen and Jeff Worley


ccll1@carnegiecenterlex.org
(859) 254-4175
http://carnegiecenterlex.org/events/kentucky-great-writers-series/

The Children
by Paula Bohince

The Children examines the ache and balm of nostalgia; nature's cycles of brideliness, decay, and rebirth; and the beauty that is the after ... [read more]

Syzygy, Beauty
by T Fleischmann

The word “syzygy” refers at once to the alignment of celestial bodies in astronomy, repeating relationships in mathematics, and male/female pai ... [read more]

The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets: A Self-Help Memoir
by Jeffrey Skinner

A private eye turned moderately successful poet leads readers on a satiric, hopeful tour of how to make a life in the arts, while still having a li ... [read more]

Something in My Eye
by Michael Jeffrey Lee

Michael Jeffrey Lee's stories are bizarre and smart and stilted, like dystopic fables told by a redneck Samuel Beckett. Outcasts hunker under brid ... [read more]

Rough Likeness
by Lia Purpura

Lia Purpura's essays are full of joy in the act of intense observation; they're also deliciously subversive and alert to the ways language gets l ... [read more]

Small Fires
by Julie Marie Wade

This is a daughter’s story. In Small Fires, Julie Marie Wade recreates the landscape of her childhood with a lacemaker’s care, then t ... [read more]

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