Novelist And Theatre Critic Laurie Stone Reads At Muhlenberg College
Author Laurie Stone will give a public reading at Muhlenberg College on Monday, March 19 at 7 p.m. in the Great Room, Seegers Union.Monday, February 26, 2007 01:59 PM
Stone is author of the novel Starting with Serge (1990), the memoir collection Close to the Bone (1997), and Laughing in the Dark (1997), a collection of her writing on comic performance. A longtime writer for the Village Voice (1975-99), she has been theater critic for The Nation, critic-at-large on National Public Radio’s Fresh Air, a member of The Bat Theater Company, and a regular writer for Ms., New York Woman, and Viva.
She has received grants from The New York Foundation for the Arts, the Kittredge Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, Saltonstall Art Colony, Poets & Writers, and in 1996 she won the Nona Balakian prize in excellence in criticism from the National Book Critics Circle.
In addition, she has served as Writer-in Residence at Pratt Institute, Old Dominion University, Thurber House and Muhlenberg College. She recently did residencies at Saltonstall and Ragdale art colonies and participated in “Novel: An Installation,” living in a house designed by the architecture firm Salazar Davis and working on a novel in Flux Factory’s gallery space.
This public reading is free and open to the public, and is part of Living Writers, a semester-long series of public readings. Future readings will be given by poet Barbara Reyes and playwright Brighde Mullins.
