Date:
Tuesday, February 6, 2007.
7:30 PM.<BR/>
Location: Pigott Hall (Building 260), Room 113<BR/><BR/>
<p>Please join us for a reading by Peter Orner, the highly acclaimed author of the new novel The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo. Dave Eggers calls The Second Coming “a gorgeously written book, very funny, and bursting with soul” (Guardian UK), while Steve Almond in the Boston Globe proclaims, “With this staggering debut novel, Orner has joined the first rank of American writers.” </p>
<p>Orner is the winner of the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship. His work has appeared in The Atlantic and Paris Review, as well as Best American Stories and the Pushcart Prize XXV. His first book, Esther Stories, was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for a PEN/Hemingway Award. He teaches at San Francisco State University.</p>
<p>Tuesday, February 6</p>
<p>7:30 pm</p>
<p>Building 260 (Pigott Hall), Room 113</p>
<p>FREE </p><BR/>
Tuesday, February 6, 2007.
7:30 PM.<BR/>
Location: Pigott Hall (Building 260), Room 113<BR/><BR/>
<p>Please join us for a reading by Peter Orner, the highly acclaimed author of the new novel The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo. Dave Eggers calls The Second Coming “a gorgeously written book, very funny, and bursting with soul” (Guardian UK), while Steve Almond in the Boston Globe proclaims, “With this staggering debut novel, Orner has joined the first rank of American writers.” </p>
<p>Orner is the winner of the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship. His work has appeared in The Atlantic and Paris Review, as well as Best American Stories and the Pushcart Prize XXV. His first book, Esther Stories, was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for a PEN/Hemingway Award. He teaches at San Francisco State University.</p>
<p>Tuesday, February 6</p>
<p>7:30 pm</p>
<p>Building 260 (Pigott Hall), Room 113</p>
<p>FREE </p><BR/>