Gone Are the Days of the Great Blondes

What you think is that you might
be sick. I think that I might be, too
with something that is a big disease:
estrangement, nostalgia, a condition
that waxes and wanes while you
consider what it all means. While you
wash your hair. While you make
the bed and make it again and again

Well, we have to face
... [ more ]

—Eleanor Lerman, from The Sensual World Re-emerges

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.

05-20-2012
You Have Given Me a Country

Brown Hotel 16th floor, Gallery 335 W Broadway Louisville, KY 40202
5:00 pm Reading from Same Sun Here (with Silas House) Part of the "Celebration of Recently Published Books by Faculty" at the Spalding University Festival of Contemporary Writing


mfa@spalding.edu
502-873-4400
http://www.spalding.edu/mfa

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