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11/8/99

WRITING AT END OF MILLENNIUM EXAMINED BY SLU PROF

CANTON -- St. Lawrence University Professor of English Joe 
David Bellamy will give a talk based on his book, Literary 
Luxuries: American Writing At The End Of The Millennium, on 
Wednesday, November 11, at 4 p.m. in the Josephine Young Room, 
Owen D. Young Library.
	The event is open to the public. Following Bellamy's talk, 
refreshments will be served.
	Bellamy's book was published by the University of Missouri 
Press in 1997 and is an evaluation of the current state of literature 
in America. Former director of the literature program of the National 
Endowment for the Arts (1990-92), Bellamy had the task of trying to 
persuade Congress and ordinary citizens that American literature is 
worthy of support. Literary Luxuries is a continuation of that debate.
	A member of the St. Lawrence faculty since 1972, Bellamy won 
the Editors' Book Award for his novel, Suzi Sinzinnati, and his 
collection of short fiction, Atomic Love, was an AWP Award Series 
selection. He is the author or editor of a number of additional books, 
including The New Fiction, Superfiction, American Poetry Observed and 
two collections of poetry.

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