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Fiction Writer Featured in UNH Authors’ Series By Erika Mantz, Media Relations The Friends of Dimond Library at the University of New Hampshire will host the fifth in a series of one-on-one conversations with authors who have ties to the Granite State Sunday, Jan. 29, 2006, at 2 p.m. when local author Rebecca Rule interviews Alexander Parsons before a live audience. The program is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. To reserve a space, e-mail nh.authors@unh.edu or call (603) 862-1540. Parsons teaches fiction writing at UNH. His first novel, Leaving Disneyland, won the 2001 Associated Writing Programs Award for the Novel and was a finalist for the 2001 PEN West Award. His second and most recent novel, In the Shadows of the Sun, was a 2005 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Parsons has received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, a Texas Literary Fellowship, and a Chesterfield Screenwriting Fellowship. Three times per year, in the style of Bravo’s Inside the Actors’ Studio, Yankee humorist, book reviewer and author Rebecca Rule invites poets, fiction and non-fiction writers, and journalists with a connection to New Hampshire to share their insights and discoveries as they pursue their passion for writing. These one-on-one interviews are conducted in front of a live audience and recorded by New Hampshire Public Television for future broadcast on Outlook. There will be an opportunity for members of the audience to ask questions, light refreshments will be served after the interview and both authors will be available to sign their books. The next featured author will be poet Charles Simic Sunday, April 2, 2006. To learn more about the series or to receive updates, e-mail nh.authors@unh.edu or call (603) 862-1540. |
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