November 20, 2008
The Indelible Mark: The Writer and a
Catholic Childhood
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
6-8 p.m.
Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus
Pope Auditorium, 113 West 60th Street
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Q. What do you do with a Catholic
childhood?
A. You write about it.
The temptations, excitements, satisfactions and angst of going
from childhood memories to written text—join us for an evening of
readings and discussion with four distinguished writers (who had
Catholic childhoods).
Moderator:
Patricia Hampl, poet and memoirist,
author of A Romantic Education, Virgin Time and most recently The
Florist’s Daughter. She is Regents Professor and McKnight
Distinguished Professor at the University of Minnesota, where she
teaches in the English department’s MFA program.
Panel:
Lawrence Joseph, poet and essayist. His books of poetry
include Into It, Codes, Precepts, Biases, and Taboos, Before Our
Eyes and Shouting at No One, which received the Agnes Lynch
Starrett Prize. Among his awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship and
two National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowships. He teaches
law at St. John's University School of Law and wrote Lawyerland, a
book of prose.
Stuart Dybek, author of three
collections of short stories, I Sailed with Magellan, The Coast of
Chicago and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, and two collections
of poetry, Streets in Their Own Ink and Brass Knuckles. His
work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic and in
Best American Fiction and Best American Poetry. He is distinguished
writer in residence at Northwestern University, and was a
2007 MacArthur fellow.
Valerie Sayers, author of five
novels, Who Do You Love and Brain Fever--both named "Notable Books
of the Year" by the New York Times Book Review--Due East, How I Got
Him Back and The Distance Between Us. She has received a
Pushcart Prize for fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts
fellowship. She is on the creative writing faculty at the
University of Notre Dame.