SUMMER READING AT SKIDMORE
SUMMER PUBLIC READING LIST 2008
Poetry and Fiction Reading
Richard Howard (Pulitzer Prize, Poetry, Talking Cures) and Margot Livesey (fiction, Eva Moves The Furniture)
June 30, 8:00 pm
Davis Auditorium
Fiction Reading
Elizabeth Benedict (novelist, Almost) and Francine Prose (novelist, A Changed Man)
July 1, 8:00 pm
Davis Auditorium
Fiction and Poetry Reading
Mary Gordon (novelist, Pearl) and Frank Bidart (poet, Desire)
July 2, 8:00 pm
Davis Auditorium
Non-Fiction Reading
Honor Moore (author, The Bishop's Daughter) and Phillip Lopate (author, Waterfront)
July 3, 8:00 pm
Davis Auditorium
Poetry Reading
Robert Pinsky (former US Poet Laureate)
July 4, 8:00 pm
Davis Auditorium
Poetry and Fiction Reading
Campbell McGrath (poet, American Noise) and Kathryn Harrison (novelist – memoirist, The Kiss)
July 7, 8:00 pm
Davis Auditorium
Poetry and Fiction Reading
Mary Kinzie (poet, Summers of Vietnam) and Marilynne Robinson (Pulitzer Prize, Gilead)
July 8, 8:00 pm
Davis Auditorium
Fiction Reading
Jim Shepard (Like You'd Understand, Anyway) and Sigrid Nunez (Last of her Kind)
July 9, 8:00 pm
Davis Auditorium
Fiction and Poetry Reading
Binnie Kirshenbaum and Dan Chiasson (poetry, Natural History)
July 10, 8:00 pm
Davis Auditorium
Fiction Reading
Joyce Carol Oates (National Book Award, them; We Were The Mulvaneys)
July 11, 8:00 pm
Davis Auditorium
Fiction and Poetry Reading
Howard Norman (novelist, the Bird Artist) and Jane Shore (Happy Family)
July 14, 8:00 pm
Davis Auditorium
Fiction Reading
William Kennedy (Pulitzer Prize, Ironweed;Roscoe)
July 15, 8:00 pm
Davis Auditorium
Fiction Reading
Julia Slavin (novelist, Carnivore Diet) and Rick Moody (fictionist, Demonology)
July 16, 8:00 pm
Davis Auditorium
Fiction and Poetry Reading
Jamaica Kincaid (novelist-memoirist, Mr. Potter; A Small Place) and Henri Cole (poet, Middle Earth)
July 17, 8:00 pm
Davis Auditorium
Fiction and Non-Fiction Reading
Ann Beattie (novelist, Park City) and Sheila Kohler (Bluebird, Or The Invention of Happiness)
July 18, 8:00 pm
Davis Auditorium
Fiction and Non-Fiction Reading
Neil Gordon (The Company You Keep) and James Miller (Democracy is in the Streets)
July 21, 8:00 pm
Davis Auditorium
Fiction and Poetry Reading
Russell Banks (novelist, The Darling) and Chase Twichell (poet, Dog Language)
July 22, 8:00 pm
Davis Auditorium
Poetry and Fiction Reading
Peg Boyers and Mary Gaitskill (fiction, Veronica)
July 23, 8:00 pm
Davis Auditorium
Fiction and Non-Fiction Reading
Robert Stone (Prime Green: Remembering The Sixties) and Alix Ohlin (novelist, The Missing Person)
July 24, 8:00 pm
Davis Auditorium
Fiction and Poetry Reading
James Longenbach (poetry, Draft of a Letter) and Joanna Scott (fiction, Liberation: A Novel)
July 25, 8:00 pm
Davis Auditorium