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2007-08 Schedule of Reading Frank Delaney Guy Kawasaki Melodie Bowsher Dan Leeson Brian Copeland (rescheduled fm. Feb. 5th) Louann Brizendine, M.D. Michelle Gagnon Firoozeh Dumas Shrabani Basu T.C. Boyle Julia Flynn Siler Kemble Scott **Earn PGA/PAA credit at Foothill for attending |
May 14 @ 3:00 p.m.!! Reading/lecture in Appreciation Hall with Reception
In addition to The Tortilla Curtain (1995), T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of eightoon other books of fiction, including, most recently, After the Plague (2001), Drop City (2003), The Inner Circle (2004), Tooth and Claw (2005), and Talk Talk (2006). He received a Ph.D. degree in Nineteenth Century British Literature from the University of Iowa in 1977, his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1974, and his B.A. in English and History from SUNY Potsdam in 1968. He has been a member of the English Department at the University of Southern California since 1978. His books are available in a number of foreign languages, including German, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, Korean, Japanese, Danish, Swedish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, Hungarian and Bulgarian. His stories have appeared in most of the major American magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, The Paris Review, GQ, Antaeus, Granta and McSweeney's, and he has been the recipient of a number of literary awards. He currently lives near Santa Barbara with his wife and three children. T.C.'s book The Tortilla Curtain is available in the Foothill College Bookstore! Please join us for the reception and book signing immediately following the reading. It will be held in the KCI Art Gallery Lobby (downstairs). Be sure to stop by the Art Gallery to see The Tortilla Curtain art project (inspired by the novel) now on display by the Foothill Printmakers. |
