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TUESDAY, MARCH 1 11 a.m., WRC Chuck Rosenthal: Reading from Memoir 7 p.m., Main Campus Theatre Chuck Rosenthal: Discussion

CHUCK ROSENTHAL

is the author of six published novels: Loop’s Progress, Experiments With Life and Deaf, Loop’s End, Elena of the Stars, Jack Kerouac’s Avatar Angel, and My Mistress, Humanity. His short fiction has appeared in numerous literary magazines including California Quarterly, New Kent Quarterly, Minotaur, Quarterly West, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Chicago Review, Western Humanities Review, Santa Monica Review, High Performance, Denver Quarterly, See, Volt, 88, the Norton Anthology of Flash Fiction and the Dove-Penguin Anthology Absolute Disaster. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the PEN West Literary Award. His screenplay Cowboys and Angels was a finalist for the Sundance Institute. He has read and lectured at numerous universities and appeared on radio and television nationally and internationally. He is the fiction editor for the Los Angeles Review and teaches narrative writing and theory for the Syntext Program at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

DALE RAY PHILLIPS

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2 11 a.m., Main Campus Theatre Dale Ray Phillips: Reading Short Stories 6:30 p.m., Main Campus Theatre Janet Murray: Lecture

published My People’s Waltz, a collectons of those stories, while living in Milledgeville, Georgia. The stories had also appeared in the Atlantic, GQ, Ploughshares, Best American Short Stories, and New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best. He says of his own work, “Writing a story is a strange act of discovery; generally, I find that what I have uncovered is nothing more than what I have always known. Also—and I’m embarrased to admit this—I love to lie, and fiction offers an acceptable channel for this compulsion.” Dale Ray Phillips currently lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

JANET H. MURRAY

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THURSDAY, MARCH 3 7 p.m., Main Campus Theatre Frank Bidart: A Conversation about Robert Lowell

is an internationally recognized interactive designer, the director of Georgia Tech’s Masters Degree Program in Information Design and Technology and Ph.D. in Digital Media, and a member of Georgia Tech’s interdisciplinary GVU Center. She is the author of Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace, which has been translated into 5 languages, and is widely used as a roadmap to the coming broadband art, information, and entertainment environments. She is currently working on a textbook for MIT Press, Inventing the Medium: A Principled Approach to Interactive Design and on a digital edition of the Warner Brothers classic, Casablanca, funded by NEH and in collaboration with the American Film Institute. In addition, she directs an eTV Prototyping Group, which has worked on interactive television applications for PBS, ABC, and other networks.

FRANK BIDART

was born in Bakersfield, California, in 1939 and educated at the University of California at Riverside and at Harvard, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. Bidart’s early books are collected in In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90. His recent volumes include Music Like Dirt and Desire, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critic’s Circle Award. Bidart is also the co-editor of Robert Lowell’s Collected Poems with David Gewanter. He has also received the Academy’s Wallace Stevens Award, the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Foundation Writer’s Award, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America, and The Paris Review’s Bernard F. Conners Prize. Bidart was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2003. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and teaches at Wellesley.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC All events are sponsored by the Artists & Lecturers Committee, the Arts Festival Committee, the Office of Student Life, and the Division of Humanities