A Reading from "Another Love Discourse" by author and UMass Amherst Professor of English, EDIE MEIDAV
Date and Time
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM EDT
Location
UMass Amherst Mount Ida Campus
Shaw Hall
100 Carlson Avenue
Newton, MA
Fees/Admission
A community event free and open to the public.
Contact Information
Laura Arends
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Description
Featured Speaker: Edie Meidav, Professor of English, UMass Amherst. Meidav will read from Another Love Discourse, her highly acclaimed lyric novel about the play of grief, empathy, new and old love, and the quest to overcome blindness in human relations. Following the reading, Meidav will sign copies of the book.
Edie Meidav is the author of the prose collection Kingdom of the Young, and novels including Lola, California, and Crawl Space. Her previous work has been recognized by the Bard Fiction Prize and the Kafka Prize, as well as support from the Fulbright Program, the Howard Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the Whiting Foundation. A senior editor at the journal Conjunctions, she is a professor in the MFA program for Poets and Writers at UMass Amherst.
This is a free program and open to the public.
To purchase a copy of Another Love Discourse, contact Amherst Books (books@amherstbooks.com; 413-256-1547) and to learn more about Edie Meidev, visit her website: www.edimeidev.com.
RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-reading-from-another-love-discourse-by-author-edie-meidav-tickets-503788564157?aff=ebdssbdestsearch 617-243-1119 or jhreynolds@umass.edu
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