The Department of Writing is pleased to present assistant professor Eleanor Henderson, who will read from her national bestselling debut novel Ten Thousand Saints this Wednesday (October 5th) at 7:30 p.m. in Clark Lounge, Campus Center. The reading is free and open to everyone.
After his best friend dies of an overdose on the last day of 1987, sixteen year-old Jude Keffy-Horn is sent to live with his pot-dealing father in New York City's East Village. There, Jude stumbles upon straight edge, an underground youth culture powered by the paradoxical aggression of hardcore punk and a righteous intolerance for drugs, meat, and sex. Acclaimed by the L.A. Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and The New York Times Book Review, among others, Ten Thousand Saints has been described as "funny, touching, artistic, surprising, lovely, eye-opening, and very, very wise." PEN/Faulkner Award winner Ann Patchett says, simply, "The best thing I've read in a long time."
Eleanor Henderson earned her MFA from the University of Virginia in 2005. Her story "The Farms" was selected by Alice Sebold for The Best American Short Stories 2009. Henderson's fiction has also appeared in Agni, North American Review, Ninth Letter, and Columbia, among other publications. Her nonfiction has appeared in Poets & Writers, where she was a contributing editor, and Virginia Quarterly, where she was the chair of the fiction board. An assistant professor at Ithaca College since 2010, she specializes in fiction writing in the Department of Writing.
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