The Department of Writing and the School of Humanities and Sciences are pleased to welcome acclaimed essayist and critic Vivian Gornick as part of this semester's Distinguished Visiting Writers Series. She will read from her work on Tuesday, April 1, at 7:30 p.m. in Beeler Hall (room 3104) in the Whalen Center for Music. The reading is free and open to the public.
Gornick is the author of eight books; one of them was nominated for a National Book Award and another for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Her essays and articles have appeared in such places as the Village Voice, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the Los Angeles Times, the Nation, Bookforum, and the Women's Review of Books.
In addition to the memoirs and personal essays for which she is best known, Gornick has written criticism influenced by her involvement in modern American feminism. Of her writing, Yale Review critic Lurin Stein remarked, "Gornick tunes your ear to prose that thinks for itself, that makes you want to read it out loud for pleasure."
Gornick has taught in MFA programs all over the country, including those at the University of Houston, the University of Arizona, Sarah Lawrence College, and the New School in New York City. Her honors include a Ford Foundation grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University.
Books by the author will be for sale, and a book signing will follow the reading. For more information, visit our website or contact Professor Jack Wang (274-3493, [mailto:wang@ithaca.edu]).
Distinguished Visiting Writers Series
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