{"id":61408,"date":"2013-02-01T12:38:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T17:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=61408"},"modified":"2016-07-01T11:14:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T15:14:47","slug":"lal13-unferth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/02\/01\/lal13-unferth\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Year I Fell in Love’ author to read for Language Arts Live"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Deb Olin Unferth, fiction writer and author of the memoir “Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War,” reads from her work in a Language Arts Live presentation Feb. 11.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Language Arts Live series of literary readings at Bates College presents Deb Olin Unferth, award-winning American fiction writer and memoirist, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11, in the Edmund Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave.<\/p>\n

Admission is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please call 207-786-6256. The Language Arts Live series is sponsored by the English department and the John Tagliabue Fund at Bates.<\/p>\n

Unferth is the author of the memoir Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War<\/em> (Henry Holt, 2011), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; the novel Vacation<\/em> (McSweeney’s Books, 2010), winner of the Cabell First Novel Award and a New York Times Critics’ Choice; and the story collection Minor Robberies<\/em> (McSweeney’s Books, 2007).<\/p>\n

Her work has been published in The New York Times, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, The Boston Review and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

As The New York Times reviewer Madison Smartt Bell wrote of Unferth, “the source of her stories’ allure is not obvious, yet they are alluring — you feel them as deeply and definitely as glass splinters, but they don’t let you see how they do it.”<\/p>\n

Unferth has received two Pushcart Prizes and a Creative Capital Grant for Innovative Literature. She is an associate professor of English at Wesleyan University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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