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Donald Morrill, “Impetuous Sleeper” (Mid-List Press, 2009) Usually on the New Books Network we do exactly what our name says: we talk about new books. Today, however, we’re doing something a little different. I’m interviewing Donald Morrill about his very …

The Lectores Reading Series of the University of Tampa MFA Program continues this evening, Friday, January 10, at 7:30 pm, on the 9th floor of the Vaughn Center, on the UT campus. The featured reader is speculative fiction master Jeff VanderMeer.

Very excited that the Lectores Reading Series of the University of Tampa MFA Program will commence this Thursday, January 9, at 7:30 pm, on the 9th floor of the Vaughn Center, on the UT campus. Our first featured guest: Valeria Luiselli. https://www.macfound.org/fellows/1043/

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Valeria Luiselli - MacArthur Foundation

JANUARY 2020 LECTORES READING SERIES

We're delighted to announce the January 2020 Lectores Reading Series at the UTMFA--beginning, January 9th, with Valeria Luiselli:

A 2019 MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, Valeria Luiselli is the author of Lost Children Archive, a finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize. The volume was named a best book of 2019 by Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, Vulture and Time. NPR called it “daring, wholly original, brilliant, fascinating.” Lost Children Archive re-imagines the classic road trip novel as an urgent examination of the immigration crisis of the US Southern Border. It is also something of a companion piece to Luiselli’s moving nonfiction volume Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions. Luiselli is also the author of the novels The Story of My Teeth and Faces in the Crowd, and Sidewalks, an essay collection.

Tonight we’re kicking off our June residency with a reading from Alexander Chee, author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night, and the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Join us at 7:30 in the Vaughn Center Crescent Club. You don’t want to miss this magic.

Congrats to UTampa alum Brook Amos on his forthcoming book, Iron Horses & Paintbrushes: My Life as a Railroad Man & Railroad Artist! This autobiographical account of Charles Amos details his thirty years as a railroader and thirty-five years as a railroad artist. Look for it on shelves in late 2020, with Garbely Publishing Company.

Faculty mentor Don Morill’s novel, BEAUT, receiving a spectacular review in Publishers Weekly! Congrats, Don!

Fiction Book Review: Beaut by Donald Morrill. John F. Blair, $16.95 trade paper (184p) ISBN 978-0-932112-74-3 Morill’s spare, haunting debut explores the space between rebirth and mortality, beauty and horror, family support and family obligation. At 66, widow Jill Lundgrove rents a bland apartment in Des Moi

Check out student Marilyn Duarte’s lyric essay, “An Ocean Away,” out now in The Tishman Review! Congrats, Marilyn!

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Faculty mentor Alan Michael Parker wins the 2019 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize for his poem “Psalm”! Congratulations, AMP!!

Alan Michael Parker Wins 2019 Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition The North Carolina Writers' Network