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4/12/10

SLU Writers Series 2009-2010 Concludes With Richard Rubin April 22

CANTON - The St. Lawrence University Writers Series will conclude for the 2009-2010 academic year with an appearance by Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing Richard Rubin on Thursday, April 22, at 8 p.m. in the Common Room of Sykes Residence Hall. The event is open to the public, free of charge.

The author of the memoir Confederacy of Silence: A True Tale of the New Old South, Rubin is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian and The Atlantic. His New York Times Magazine article "The Ghosts of Emmett Till" was included in The Best American Crime Writing 2006. He has also published fiction in several magazines and journals, including The Oxford American, The Southern Review and The Virginia Quarterly Review. His current project is a nonfiction work about World War I.

For more information, contact the English department at 315-229-5125.

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