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Monthly Archives: November 2017
One City One Book @ Vienna, Austria: Last Night at the Lobster
The city of Vienna, Austria, is reading Last Night at the Lobster!
The events are as follows:
OPENING AT THE BUCH WIEN / MESSE WIEN
November 9, 12:00 – 13:30
Messe Wien, foyer of hall D
CONVERSATION WITH WOLFGANG POPP
November 9, 14:00 – 14:30
Messe Wien
GALA EVENING IN THE VIENNA CITY HALL
November 9, 19:00 – 22:00
Rathaus Vienna
DISCUSSION WITH STUDENTS
November 10
Bundesrealgymnasium GRG 23
DISCUSSION WITH THE AUTHOR
November 10, 19:30
Vienna Energy World
[Wiener Gratis-Buch 2017: Stewart O’Nan’s hit novel “Last Night”]
Writer-in-Residence Inspires at Plaza Reading
It would be easy to imagine that an award-winning author of 17 published novels has always been a literary genius. Yet, Stewart O’Nan, the university’s 2017 Cockefair Writer-in-Residence, started out as an engineer.
The Cockefair Writer-in-Residence is one of the creative writing department’s most significant annual programs. This year, O’Nan taught a class to graduate students on Oct. 23 and followed it with an Oct. 24 reading at the Plaza Library.
“I first read one of O’Nan’s books as a graduate student in Indiana,” English professor Christie Hodgen reminisced as she introduced O’Nan at the reading. “People were passing it around like a great secret, saying, ‘You’ve got to read this.’”
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The Works of Stewart O'Nan 