October Calendar

Don Wallace is working on a new Hawaiian cultural documentary with Eddie Kamae.

Doug Unger‘s Las Vegas essay, “City of Nomads, City of Second Chances,” is part of the new anthology West of 98: Living and Writing in the New American West, just published by the University of Texas Press. The manuscript of his big new novel, Rise and Fall, is with outside readers before a pre-submission final edit and polish.

Ross Howell is teaching two sections of College Writing at Elon University in North Carolina and “finding that 8 o’clock classes at age 61 are every bit as challenging as they were at age 18.”

Allan Gurganus‘s essay “About ‘Sherman’s March’” is in the current Southern Cultures. He appears in Grace Paley, Collected Stories, a documentary about his first writing teacher by Lilly Rivkin.

A new edition of Rosalyn Drexler‘s long out of print novel To Smithereens has been published by Black Square Editions/Brooklyn Rail Books (long live Rosa Carlo, the Mexican Spitfire!).

Abaton Books is dramatizing three of her short stories to be on their Abaton Radio Theatre CDs. And she’s working on her book Tree Man, experimenting with illustrations for it. Plus she has four new canvases in what she calls “The Baby” series. Obviously, she never sleeps.

T.C. Boyle reports the foreword to T.C. Boyle Stories II, the Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle, Volume II, is finished and polished and his “In the Zone” is in the current issue of The Kenyon Review.

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thru Dec 1 - “The Latino List“: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY. Sandra Cisneros is included in this exhibition of 25 large-format portraits of accomplished and influential Latinos.

Oct 7 – Joy Harjo performance and book signing, Society of American Indians Centennial Symposium, Ohio State University, 1739 N. High St., Columbus, OH 8-10 pm.

Oct 10-11 – Sandra Cisneros at South Texas College Hispanic Heritage Month event

Oct 14 – Joy Harjo at Wesleyan University with Larry Mitchell, 45 Wyllys Ave., Middletown, CT

Oct 15 – Joy Harjo at Mystic Café with Larry Mitchell, Mystic, CT 8 p.m.

Oct 18 – Joy Harjo with Larry Mitchell at University of Massachusetts, Bowker Auditorium, 140 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA 7 pm, free

Oct 19 – “An Evening of Poetry with Joy Harjo,” Westfield State University, 577 Western Ave., Westfield, MA 7pm

Oct 20 – Eric Olsen and Glenn Schaeffer reading & signing at Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd. W. Hollywood, CA 7 p.m.

Oct 21 – Bill Manhire poetry reading, 7 pm Palmerston North Central Library, Palmerston North, NZ

Oct 29 – Joy Harjo book signing for Soul Talk, Song Language, University of New Mexico Bookstore, 2301 Central NE, Albuquerque, NM

Oct 30 – Joy Harjo reading and signing, Alamosa Books, 8810 Holly Ave. NE, Ste. D, Albuquerque, NM, 2 – 3:30 p.m.