The next BathHouse reading is tomorrow:
JIM SHEPARD and RON HANSEN
Wednesday, October 29, 5:00 PM
Auditorium, Student Center, EMU
JIM SHEPARD is the author of six novels, including most recently Project X, and three story collections, including most recently Like You’d Understand, Anyway, which was nominated for the National Book Award and won The Story Prize. His short fiction has appeared in, among other magazines, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Granta, the New Yorker and Playboy, and he is a columnist on film for the magazine The Believer. He teaches at Williams College.
Interview with Jim Shepard:
http://www.bookslut.com/features/2007_09_011635.php
RON HANSEN is the author, most recently, of the novel Exiles (FSG 2008). Among his other books are Isn’t It Romantic? (Harper Collins,2003), A Stay Against Confusion: Essays on Faith and Fiction ( Harper Collins2001), Desperadoes (Knopf), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Knopf) Nebraska (Atlantic Monthly Press), Mariette in Ecstasy (Harper Collins) Atticus (Harper Collins) and a children’s book, The Shadowmaker (Trophy Press). A native of Omaha, he received the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for Nebraska, a collection of short fiction. According to Contemporary Novelists, Hansen’s books “occupy … a curious half-way house between popular and high culture; between the worlds of art and entertainment.” A book by Hansen provides a good read as well as a searching study of morality. He is Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Santa Clara University. His novel Atticus was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1996.
Ron Hansen on NPR’s “Fresh Air,” and excerpt from his latest novel:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91356850