SLU Writers Series Begins September 4



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9/1/03

SLU WRITERS SERIES BEGINS SEPTEMBER 4

CANTON – The 2003-2004 Writers Series at St. Lawrence University begins 
on Thursday, September 4, with an appearance by Cathy Bao Bean, author 
of The Chopsticks-Fork Principle: A Memoir and a Manual. The event will 
begin at 7 p.m., in Eben Holden. 
	The Chopsticks-Fork Principle is a memoir of growing up while 
being pulled between two very different cultures – Chinese and American. 
It is a wry portrait of Bean's parents and a charming account of raising 
her son. Her biography says, "Cathy Bao Bean has been a daughter, business 
manager, aerobics instructor, mother, friend, writer, sister, educational 
consultant, wife and activist for the New Jersey Council for the 
Humanities. In a previous incarnation, she was a philosophy teacher, cook, 
student, carpool driver and board member of the Society for Values in 
Higher Education. Her book ends with the adding of another auspicious 
title: mother-in-law. None of it has been painless, but all of it has 
been fun, except the cooking."
      The three winners of the 2003 St. Lawrence University Prize for 
Young Writers will also read briefly at this event.
      Other events in this year's series are: Sept. 25, 8 p.m., Eben Holden, 
Charles Baxter (novels Shadow Play and First Light; National Book Award 
Finalist for The Feast of Love); Oct. 16, 8 p.m., Eben Holden, Michael 
Steinberg (forthcoming memoir Still Pitching); Nov. 13, 8 p.m., Eben 
Holden, Robin Hemley (Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness); Dec. 4, 
8 p.m., Eben Holden, Viebranz Visiting Writer John Daniel (Winter Creek: 
One Writer's Natural History; The Trail Home: Immigration and the American 
West); Jan. 29, 8 p.m., Eben Holden, Visiting Distinguished Scholar Dionne 
Brand (In Another Place, Not Here); Feb. 12, 8 p.m., Eben Holden, John 
Metcalf (Shooting the Stars); March 23, 8 p.m., Eben Holden, Nuala Ni 
Dhomhnaill  (The Astrakhan Cloak); April 15, 8 p.m., Herring-Cole, Patricia 
Hampl (I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory; A Romantic 
Education); April 22, 8 p.m., Eben Holden, Anthony Kellman (Sandra M. 
Nelson Memorial Poetry Reading, Watercourse; The Coral Rooms).
      For more information, contact the English department at 
315-229-5125.

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