{"id":48836,"date":"2011-09-16T15:39:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T19:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=48836"},"modified":"2015-12-18T11:36:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T16:36:43","slug":"lal-autumn112-vandenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/09\/16\/lal-autumn112-vandenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-story writer Laura van den Berg continues Language Arts Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/09\/bates-lal11-vandenberg2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/09\/bates-lal11-vandenberg2-200x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Laura van den Berg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Laura van den Berg, whose  short-story collection was a Barnes &amp; Noble &#8220;Discover Great New  Writers&#8221; selection, reads from her work at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, in the Edmund S. Muskie  Archives, 70 Campus Ave.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0 Language Arts Live  reading is open to the public at no cost. The series is sponsored by the  English department, the Humanities Fund, the Learning Associates Program  and the John Tagliabue Poetry Fund. For more information, please  contact 207-786-6256 or 207-784-0416, or <a href=\"rfarnswo@bates.edu\">rfarnswo@bates.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The series continues  with a Nov. 17 reading by veteran poet Sydney Lea,  whom author Michael Pollan called &#8220;as fine a companion on the page as   American writing about nature has to offer.&#8221;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/> Lea&#8217;s appearance is also at 7:30  p.m. in the Muskie Archives.<\/p>\n<p>Van den Berg is the author of the short-story collection <em>What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us<\/em> &#8212; a book that a reviewer for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation  called &#8220;an impressive, memorable debut that really couldn&#8217;t be more  perfect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Illuminating the intersection of the mythic and the mundane, the  stories in van den Berg&#8217;s debut depict women consumed with searching for  absolution, for solace, for the flash of extraordinary in the ordinary  that will forever alter their lives. Barnes &amp; Noble selected <em>What the World Will Look Like<\/em> for its &#8220;Discover Great New Writers&#8221; program, and the collection was  shortlisted for the Frank O&#8217;Connor Award and awarded the 2007 Dzanc  Prize.<\/p>\n<p>Raised in Florida, van den Berg earned her master&#8217;s of fine arts at  Emerson College. Her fiction has appeared or will soon appear in the  periodicals Ploughshares, One Story, Boston Review, American Short  Fiction and Conjunctions, and the anthology <em>Best New American Voices 2010<\/em>, among other publications.<\/p>\n<p>She has taught writing at Emerson College and Gettysburg College. She lives in Baltimore and is at work on new  stories and a novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura van den Berg, whose short-story collection was a Barnes &amp; Noble &#8220;Discover Great New Writers&#8221; selection, reads from her work at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, in the Edmund S. 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