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Sponsored by St. John's University,
Institute for Writing Studies, and the Center for Humanities, The
Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Guest
Speaker: David Matlin
David Matlin is a novelist, poet, and essayist. His collections
of poetry include the books China Beach, Dressed in Protective
Fashion, and Fontana’s Mirror. His first novel, How the Night is
Divided, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award
in 1993. Prisons: Inside the New America from Vernooykil Creek to
Abu Ghraib, (North Atlantic Books, 2005), is based on a tenyear
experience teaching in one of the oldest Prison Education Programs
in the nation in New York State. It Might Do Well With Strawberries
(Marick Press, 2008) is a new narrative hybrid with a focus on the
years 2004-2005 and the crisis of the new century. The author’s
newest book, A HalfMan Dreaming (Red Hen Press, 2012) begins with
the shadow of a Flying Wing. The image remains a startling blank
that hovered over Cold War Southern California and extends into the
whirlpools of betrayal which have since that time become so sleekly
barbaric. Through the telling of a Mexican/American Vietnam War
Veteran, the novel mixes voices, events, ghosts, and ghost worlds.
A HalfMan Dreaming is a vision of the Enola Gay, cauldrons of
glamorous malignancies, beauty, abduction, and the fragile
extremities this novel includes in its longing for a new kind of
story-life. David Matlin is a professor in San Diego State
University’s Department of English and its MFA Creative Writing
program.
Date: Monday, October 15th,
2012
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Room 118, Manhattan
Campus
RSVP: Required.
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