PROSE VISITS UW: The University of Wyoming Creative Writing Program’s Visiting Writers Series has announced a visit by Francine Prose. She will read from her work in the meeting room of the Albany Country Public Library (310 South Eighth St.) on Monday, Oct. 2, 5 p.m. Prose has been named "one of our great cultural satirists" and is the author of fourteen books of fiction, including the novels "Blue Angel" (a finalist for the 2000 National Book Award) and "A Changed Man" (2005). Her stories, reviews and essays have appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Best American Short Stories, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and numerous other publications. Among her many honors are Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships, two NEA grants, and a PEN prize for translation. Prose has taught literature and writing for more than twenty years at major universities such as Harvard, Iowa, and Columbia. Her newest work, "Reading Like a Writer," offers an inside look at how professionals read and write, taking the reader on a guided tour of the tools and tricks of the great masters. The reading is free and open to the public.
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