{"id":4801,"date":"2015-09-02T07:08:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T11:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=4801"},"modified":"2015-09-29T06:43:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T10:43:17","slug":"princetons-fall-literary-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=4801","title":{"rendered":"Princeton\u2019s Fall Literary Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fall 2015 will be an exciting time for Princeton-area followers of the literary world. The Althea Ward Clark reading series of the Lewis Center for the Arts includes three top-notch entries. The monthly series features a poet and a prose writer, usually known for fiction, and they are held in the Berlind Theatre at the McCarter Theatre Center, at 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

On September 30, the program presents Phil Klay, a National Book Award winner for his collection of short stories, Redeployment<\/em>. Klay is a former Marine who served in Iraq. His stories show the profound dislocation of young Americans trying to cope with a seriously broken society completely foreign to their understanding\u2014an experience that gradually transforms their views of America too. \u201cIn Klay\u2019s hands, Iraq comes across not merely as a theater of war but as a laboratory for the human condition in extremis,\u201d said Dexter Filkins\u2019s New York Times review<\/a><\/em>. Also reading will be Natalie Diaz, who has a poetry collection titled When My Brother Was an Aztec<\/em> and has won the Nimrod\/Hardin Pablo Neruda Prize.<\/p>\n

Short story writer and novelist Jhumpa Lahiri will appear on October 14 with poet Mary Szybist. Lahiri\u2019s collection of short stories, The Interpreter of Maladies,<\/em> won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, but she may be best known for The Namesake<\/em> and the movie made from it. Her most recent novel is The Lowland, <\/em>shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker prize, and a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. Her first two books tell about the displacement and loss of context of experienced by Indian immigrants in America. The Lowland<\/em>, \u201cbuoyantly ambitious in both its story and its form,\u201d said NPR reviewer Maureen Corrigan,<\/a> is set mostly in Calcutta. Szybist won the National Book Award for her poetry collection Incarnadine<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Finally, on November 18 novelist Adam Johnson and poet Dorianne Laux will read. Johnson wrote the masterful 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Orphan Master\u2019s Son<\/a><\/em>, and I can\u2019t wait to hear him read\u2014I hope from his new collection of stories. Laux\u2019s most recent poetry collection is The Book of Men.<\/em><\/p>\n

More Local Events<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Starting in late September, the Lewis Center will present the Princeton French Theater Festival<\/a>\u2014a diverse array of plays and readings.<\/p>\n

The regular literary programs at the Princeton Public Library continue\u2014book groups for mysteries, fiction, black voices, poetry, and Spanish-language stories. October 24, the library hosts the annual \u201cLocal Author Day book fair<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

On October 30 at Labyrinth Books, cultural historian Thomas Laqueur<\/a> will discuss his book, The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains<\/em>. Right up my alley. It\u2019s one of a dozen discussions of books on various topics (not much fiction) the bookstore has scheduled for September and October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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