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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Performing Arts Center, Concert Hall
7:00 p.m.
For more info call 516.877.4000
Adelphi University welcomes alumna and best-selling author Alice Hoffman ’73 for a "Reading and Conversation to Celebrate the new Alice Hoffman Fellowships in Creative Writing" on Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the new Performing Arts Center (AU PAC), 1 South Avenue, Garden City, NY. Ms. Hoffman will discuss and sign her newest book, The Third Angel, and the recipients of the first Alice Hoffman Fellowships in Creative Writing will be announced. This is a ticketed event.
Ms. Hoffman will read excerpts from her eighteenth novel, The Third Angel (2008), published by Shaye Areheart Books. A compelling and captivating work, The Third Angel examines the lives of three London women at different crossroads in their lives, and has garnered praise from national media, including the New York Times, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist..
Additional information about the event:
New Orleans Novelist and Jazz Critic
Tom Piazza reads from his post-Katrina
novel, City of Refuge.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Performing Arts Center, Room 215
7:00 p.m.
For more info call 516.877.4020
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Tom Piazza's Why New Orleans Matters was the book that defined New Orleanians’ response to Hurricane Katrina and its devastation of the people and culture of that great city. Now his novel explores this turning point in American culture. Like John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, it sounds complex chords of race, class, culture, and regional identity, but always through the double helix of these two families' lives. Piazza’s characters will live in readers’ minds and hearts, and their encounter with the storm will confront us all with raw truths about our nation and ourselves. Rich with emotional insight and unforgettable scenes, it will challenge, and deeply move, every reader.
A Long Island native, Piazza is the author of nine books, including the novel My Cold War, and the book-length post-Katrina essay Why New Orleans Matters. He has been awarded the James Michener Award for Fiction and the Faulkner Society Award for the Novel, among many other honors. A well known writer on American music as well, he won a 2004 Grammy Award for his album notes to Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey. He lives in New Orleans.
Additional information about City of Refuge:
Graduating M.F.A. students in dramatic writing heard their full-length thesis play read by professional actors in front of an audience on Friday, May 16, 2008.
Contact
For additional information, please contact:
M.F.A. Program
Harvey Hall, Room 215
p - 516.877.4044
e - mfa@adelphi.edu
This page last modified on November 24, 2008.
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