Author Event With John Smecler

Submitted by pday on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 7:07pm

Start: 10/09/2009 6:30 pm

End: 10/09/2009 8:00 pm

Reading from The Binghamton Poems and The Great Death

http://www.johnsmelcer.com/books.html

John Smelcer is currently teaching at Binghamton University and is the award-winning author of over 40 books published in an eclectic range of interests. Aside from John's many novels and poetry collections, he has published books in history, mythology, anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, as well as anthologies, plays, screenplays, and children’s picture books. His short stories, poems, interviews, and essays -- read by millions -- appear in over 400 magazines and journals worldwide. His novel, The Trap, published in the United States and the United Kingdom, has been hailed an "epic" and a "masterpiece." It won the James Jones Prize, was named a Notable Book by the New York Public Library, was a BBYA Top Ten Pick and a VOYA Top Shelf Selection." Nobelist Elie Wiesel called John's follow-up novel, The Great Death, "Stunning!" Tony Hillerman called it "a small miracle," and Frank McCourt said he "couldn't put it down."

Many of America’s greatest writers and scholars collaborate with John Smelcer, including John Updike with The Binghamton Poems , Nobelist Saul Bellow with Stealing Indians and Noam Chomsky with The Complete Ahtna Poems and The Ahtna Noun Dictionary, Carl Sagan with Tracks, Gary Snyder with In the Shadows of Mountains, Denise Levertov and Allen Ginsberg with Songs from an Outcast, and Ted Hughes (Sylvia Plath's ex-husband) with Raven Speaks.