Writers at Rutgers Reading Series features five noted authors
Archived article from Oct 10, 2005
By Pam Orel
The Writers at Rutgers Reading Series will bring five award-winning novelists and poets to the New Brunswick campus. The lineup includes Michael Cunningham, Marilyn Hacker, Jonathan Lethem, Susan Wheeler and Jonathan Franzen. The series begins Oct. 24 and concludes March 29, 2006. All events are free and open to the public, and begin at 7:30 p.m.
Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Hours,” “A Home at the End of the World” and “Flesh and Blood,” kicks off the series with a reading from his most recent work, “Specimen Days.” Part ghost story, part noir thriller and part science fiction, the novel has been praised by Time magazine as “luminous and penetrating.” Among his many honors, he holds a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Writers Award. His presentation will take place Oct. 24 at the Rutgers Student Center.
The series continues Nov. 2 with a reading by Marilyn Hacker, an award-winning poet, translator and editor. She has published 11 books of poetry, most recently “Desesperanto.” Among many honors, she holds the Lambda Literary Award, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation. Hacker will read from her work at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum.
Fiction writer and essayist Jonathan Lethem will read from his works Nov. 30. He is the author of five novels, including “The Fortress of Solitude,” “Motherless Brooklyn” and “Gun, With Occasional Music.” He was recently selected as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow. His short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, McSweeney’s and Rolling Stone. Lethem’s presentation also will take place at the Rutgers Student Center.
The series continues Feb. 22, 2006, with a reading by Susan Wheeler, author of several award-winning books of poetry and a recent novel, “Record Palace.” Wheeler, who teaches at Princeton University and the New School, is a former director of the Writers at Rutgers Reading Series. Among many honors, she holds fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. The reading is planned for the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum.
Jonathan Franzen, author of “The Corrections,” an international success that won a National Book Award, wraps up the series with a reading March 29. Franzen, who writes frequently for the New Yorker, is also the author of the novels “The Twenty-Seventh City,” “Strong Motion” and the collection of essays “How to be Alone.” He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the American Academy’s Berlin Prize. The reading is planned for the Rutgers Student Center.
A book signing will follow each reading. For information, call
732-932-7633 or visit english.rutgers.edu.
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