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9/4/00

SLU WRITERS SERIES FIRST TALK SEPT. 7

CANTON -- Essayist John D'Agata is the first artist in the 
2000-2001 St. Lawrence University Writers Series. He will 
speak and read from his work on Thursday, September 7, at 
7 p.m. in Herring-Cole Hall. The event is open to the public, 
free of charge.
	D'Agata's forthcoming debut collection, Halls of Fame 
(Graywolf, 2001), combines "a maximalist's intellectual curiosity 
with a minimalist's austere lyricism to produce results that 
are novel, intriguing and haunting." He shifts between prose 
and poetic strategies throughout the book, creating an innovative 
hybrid D'Agata calls "the lyric essay."
	The editor of The Next American Essay, an anthology of 
lyric essays by other contemporary writers, D'Agata is the associate 
editor of Hobart and William Smith College's Seneca Review and a 
visiting assistant professor of English at Colgate University.
	D'Agata's reading will be preceded by readings from the 
winners of St. Lawrence's Young Writers Contest: Nicole Bogas, of 
Charlotte, North Carolina, poetry; Charlotte Hardin, of Magnolia, 
Texas, creative non-fiction; and Geeta Naidu, of South Barrington, 
Illinois, fiction.
	Other Writers Series events this year include Carolyne 
Wright, October 4; Colin Harrison and Kathryn Harrison, October 25; 
Alberto Rios, November 1; David Shields, November 8; Robin Hemley, 
February 6; Paul Muldoon, March 7; and Chase Twichell, April 18.
	For more information, contact the English department, at 
315-229-5125.

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