Novelist Russell Banks to Appear at ‘Berg
Russell Banks, acclaimed novelist of The Reserve (2008) and The Darling (2004), will give a reading at Muhlenberg College on Wednesday, October 13, 2010, at 7 p.m. in Miller Forum, Moyer Hall.Friday, September 17, 2010 11:45 AM
This event is free and open to the public.
Banks is well-known for his novels, Affliction (1998) and The Sweet Hereafter (1991), which were both made into films. The film version of The Sweet Hereafter won three Cannes Film Festival Awards. Banks’ work has been translated into 20 different languages and received a number of international prizes and awards.
Banks’ appearance is a part of Living Writers, a semester-long series of public readings. Future readings will be given by Sarah Vowell, Art Spiegelman and Alan Michael Parker.
Established in 1994, “Living Writers” is a course offered once every three years which brings six established and emerging writers to Muhlenberg College. The students read their recent works and then interact with the authors directly as they visit campus for a day. The writers come to class, have lunch with students and then give a public reading of their work in the evening. Each writer is interviewed on the college’s radio station. Their visit is a community event. Past participants have included David Sedaris, Jonathan Franzen, Gary Snyder, Adrienne Rich, Francine Prose, Galway Kinnell, Robert Pinsky, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Levine.
