When: Monday, October 20, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Where: Perkins Library Rare Book Room
Cost: Free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Bryan Center.
Globalization and the Artist, a project of the Duke University Center for International Studies, opens its Series on Suffering with novelist and essayist Peter Trachtenberg, reading from his new book: The Book of Calamities: Five Questions about Suffering and its Meaning. His fiction, essays, and reportage have appeared in The New Yorker, Harpers, Bomb, A Public Space, T: The New York Times Travel Magazine, & the Kenyan literary journal Kwani? He is also a monologist, who has performed his work at Dixon Place, PS 122, and The Kitchen and broadcast his commentaries on NPR’s All Things Considered. He is the recipient of a 2007 Whiting Writers Award, the Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction, and an Artist’s Fellowship from the NY Foundation for the Arts. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, with an M.A. from City College of New York, he is currently an assistant professor of creative writing at the Univ. of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Info: http://www.petertrachtenberg.com
Co-sponsors: Duke University Center for International Studies and John Hope Franklin CenterContact Information: Sikorski, Rob 684-2867
