Ithaca College

Award-winning novelist Dana Spiotta will give a reading, Q&A, and book-signing in Clark Lounge on Monday, November 28 at 7:30 PM as part of the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series.

Dana Spiotta is the author of four novels: Innocents and Others (Scribner, 2016); Stone Arabia, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist in fiction; Eat the Document, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and a recipient of the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and Lightning Field. Spiotta was a Guggenheim Fellow, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, and the winner of the 2008–9 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. She teaches in the Syracuse University MFA program.

In a feature in the New York Times Magazine, Susan Burton wrote, “Spiotta has created a new kind of great American novel…[she] writes radiant, concentrated books that, as she has put it, consider ‘the way things external to us shape us: money, technology, art, place, history’… Her books are simultaneously vast and local, exploring great American themes (self-invention, historical amnesia) within idiosyncratic worlds (phone phreaks, ’80s Los Angeles adolescence). She has been compared with Don DeLillo and Joan Didion, but her tone and mood are distinctly her own: She’s fascinated, not alienated.”

Read the whole article here, and more about Dana Spiotta at danaspiotta.com. Learn more about the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series at ithaca.edu/dvw, and visit the IC event page here.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Eleanor Henderson at ehenderson@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-3324. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.