Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Franklin/Fennelly: River City Writers
Posted by Leonard Gill on Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:02 AM
He is Tom Franklin; she is poet Beth Ann Fennelly (pictured); and both teach at the University of Mississippi. For a joint interview with the writers, be inside Room 456 in Patterson Hall at 10:30 a.m. In the afternoon, Fennelly will also give a poetry workshop at 2:30 p.m., while Franklin conducts a fiction workshop at the same time — both events inside Patterson.
This evening, Fennelly and Franklin will read from their works in the U of M's University Center River Room. Time: 8 p.m.
All River City Writers Series events are free and open to the public. For more information, e-mail creativewriting@memphis.edu or call 901-678-4692.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Tom Franklin, Zombies, etc.
Posted by Leonard Gill on Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:05 AM
You're stumped: How to get that novel of yours going? How to draw from personal experience? Maybe: how to turn a short story into a novel?
Tom Franklin, who teaches in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi, has a few words on these matters, on the occasion of his just-released Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (William Morrow), a Mississippi-set novel that is already getting great press and great book-industry recognition (here; here).
He's reading from and signing copies of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter tonight, Thursday, October 7th, 6 p.m. at Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Memphis, in a joint reading with his friend, the multiple-award-winning crime novelist Laura Lippman (her latest: I'd Know You Anywhere, also from Morrow).
But as for that matter: getting things going. To begin:
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