Minnesota State Mankato’s Good Thunder Reading Series will host Montana novelist Aryn Kyle during the four-day Eddice B. Barber Visiting Writer residency Tuesday through Friday, Feb. 16-19.
Each morning from 10 to 11 a.m., the writer will conduct a writing workshop in Centennial Student Union Room 202. At other times during the visit she will be interviewed on KMSU-FM, meet with community writers and visit area schools.
On Thursday, Feb. 18, she will lead a discussion on the craft of writing at 3 p.m. in the Centennial Student Union Ostrander Auditorium. That same day at 7:30 p.m. in CSU Room 253, she will read from her published work. All events are free and open to the public.
Aryn Kyle's debut novel, “The God of Animals,” was published in 2007 and has become an international bestseller. Kyle's short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly; The Georgia Review; Ploughshares; Best American Short Stories, 2007; and elsewhere. Her short story collection, “Boys and Girls Like You and Me,” will be published by Scribner in 2010.
An interview with Kyle, part of the “Authors in Transit” series on public-radio station KMSU 89.7 FM, will air on Thursday, Feb. 18, at 1 p.m., and on Friday, Feb. 19, at 11 a.m.
This year’s Good Thunder Reading Series is funded by the Minnesota State Mankato Department of English, College of Arts and Humanities, Office of Institutional Diversity, Nadine B. Andreas Endowment, Eddice B. Barber Visiting Writer Endowment, Robert C. Wright Endowment and individual donors.
This activity is made possible in part by a grant provided by the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council from funds appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature. This activity is also made possible in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Minnesota State Mankato Library Services and the campus Barnes & Noble Bookstore offer additional assistance.
For more information about the series, call Richard Robbins at the Department of English, 507-389-1354, or see the web site at: www.english2.mnsu.edu/gt/
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