Novelist Laird Hunt—author of The Paris Stories, Indiana, Indiana, The Impossibly, The Exquisite, and, most recently, Ray of the Star—makes his first appearance in the UMaine New Writing Series on Thursday, February 18, 2010. The reading takes place at 4:30pm in the Soderberg Center Auditorium on the University of Maine’s flagship campus in Orono and is free and open to the public (though seating is limited).
You can read recent reviews of Ray of the Star here. If you’re on Facebook, please consider joining the NWS group here.
The UMaine New Writing Series is sponsored by the English Department and the National Poetry Foundation with support from the Lloyd H. Elliott fund, the Milton Ellis Memorial Fund, the Honors College, and the Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Series Committee. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the Pulp & Paper Foundation for the use of the Soderberg Center. FMI contact Steve Evans on First Class or at 207-581-3818.
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