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Humanities Author Series - Ron Carlson

The School of Humanities kicks off the 2013-14 Author Series with

Ron Carlson

Wednesday, October 23, 2013
6:00 p.m.
Humanities Gateway 1030

Please join us to hear Ron Carlson, author and director of the Graduate Program in Fiction at UCI, read from Return to Oakpine, a poignant novel about homecoming, friendship, growing up, and growing old.

Ron Carlson is the author of ten books of fiction, including the novel The Signal. His short stories have appeared in Esquire, Harpers, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and other journals, as well as The Best American Short Stories, The O'Henry Prize Series, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction and other anthologies; they have been performed on National Public Radio’s “This American Life” and “Selected Shorts.” Ron Carlson Writes a Story, his book on writing is taught widely. He is the author of a book of poems, Room Service. Carlson has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Cohen Prize at Ploughshares, the McGinnis Award at the Iowa Review, the Aspen Literary Award; and his novel Five Skies was One Book Rhode Island in 2009. He is Director of the Graduate Program in Fiction at the University of California, Irvine.

Event is free and open to the public. For further information, please email humanities@uci.edu.