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Some Favorite Writers
Series
2007-2008 Academic Year of Programs
- Some Favorite Writers: Amy Hempel
in conversation with UCLA faculty member and novelist Mona Simpson
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
at the Hammer Museum
Parking Available at the Museum, $3
Amy Hempel is a short-story writer and journalist. Her most recent collection of stories is The Dog of the Marriage; her other collections are Reasons to Live, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, and Tumble Home. Her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Harper’s, and The Yale Review. She teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and Bennington College. She has won several prestigious literary awards for her work, including the Hobson Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Mona Simpson, organizer of the Some Favorite Writers series, is the author of Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, and Off Keck Road.
- Some Favorite Writers: Junot Díaz
in conversation with UCLA faculty member and novelist Mona Simpson
Monday, March 17, 2008 at 7:00 P.M.
at the Hammer Museum
Parking Available at the Museum, $3.00
Junot Díaz is a contemporary Dominican-American writer. Central to Díaz's work is the duality of the immigrant experience. He is the first Dominican-born man to become a major author in the United States. He has written numerous short stories, and is best known for his two major works: the short story collection Drown (1996) and the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007). Junot Díaz teaches creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is also the fiction editor for the Boston Review. He is a founding member of the Voices of Writing Workshop, a writing workshop focused on writers of color.
Mona Simpson, organizer of the Some Favorite Writers series, is the author of Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, and Off Keck Road.
http://www.junotdiaz.com/
- more to come...
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