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Visiting Writers Series with Author Chris Bachelder
Venue: Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Chris Bachelder, Visiting Writers Series at Virginia Tech
Date: Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Time: 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Event Types: Arts & Theatre, Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

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Description:
The Virginia Tech Department of English's Visiting Writers Series presents a Reading from Author Chris Bachelder on Wednesday, February 7, 2018 in The Cube at the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech.

Chris Bachelder is the fiction author of "Bear v. Shark" (2001), "U.S.!" (2006), "Abbott Awaits" (2011), and "The Throwback Special" (2016) which was the winner of the Paris Review's 2016 Terry Southern Prize for Humor and a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award. Foreign editions of his novels have been published in the UK, Italy, France, Spain, Russia, and Germany.

"The Throwback Special" is a moving and comic tale filled with pitch-perfect observations about manhood, marriage, middle age, and the rituals we all enact as part of being alive.

Bachelder’s short fiction and essays have appeared in McSweeney's, The Believer, Harper’s, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, The Massachusetts Review, Black Warrior Review, Subtropics, and elsewhere.

Before joining the faculty at the University of Cincinnati in 2011, Bachelder taught at the University of Massachusetts, Colorado College, and New Mexico State and he is a graduate of Virginia Tech and the University of Florida.

Link: http://www.artsci.uc.edu/departments/english/profiles/chris_bachelder.html

Admission is free and open to the public.

For more information, visit: http://vtcwmfa.tumblr.com/readings or http://liberalarts.vt.edu/departments-and-schools/department-of-english/visiting-writers-series.html or https://www.facebook.com/VirginiaTechEnglishDepartment/.