Mystery writer James Sallis will conduct a master class, “Telling Good Lies: Where Fiction Comes From,” on Saturday, Oct. 1, 9 a.m.-noon, at the Casper College Literary Conference, Casper. Fee is $25 for students, $40 for non-students. From 1:30-3:30 p.m., Sallis will join WAC fiction fellowship winners Geneen Marie Haugen, Alyson Hagy, and John English for a free reading. Reception will follow. FMI: 1-800-442-2963, ext. 2639. Here's a timely excerpt from Sallis's Eye of the Cricket spoken by New Orleans private eye Lew Griffin: “The storm came in over the lake, bowing the shaggy heads of young trees and snapping branches off the old, blowing out of Metairie where the white folks live. In my own back yard a hundred-year-old water oak at last gave in, splitting in half as though a broadsword had struck it, opening like a book.”
- posted by Michael Shay @ 1:03 PM