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Cambridge US Lit Festival
* * * Friday 17 March Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Gallery III
6 p.m. Frank Kermode: Opening address
A reception will be held afterwards during which a few 20th- century
American First Editions may be viewed in the Gallery.
The event will finish at 7.30 p.m.
A small exhibition of American works of art is being shown in the
Octagon and will run for the duration of the Festival.
The Fitzwilliam Museum is open
Tues-Sat 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sun 2.15 - 5 p.m. (admission free)
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Saturday 18 March All events take place in Keynes Hall / Chetwynd Room
9.45 - 10.15 a.m. John Hollander - will read from his work
10.15 - 11.00 a.m. Sharon Olds - will read from her work
11.00 - 11.30 a.m. Coffee / Tea
11.30 - 12.15 p.m. Robert Coover - will read from his work
12 15 - 2.00 p.m. Lunch
2.00- 3.45 p.m. Prose, Fiction and their Publishers
will be discussed by
Michael Hulse (Chair)
Keith Botsford,
Bill Buford
James Campbell,
David H. Lynn and
Mary-Kay Wilmers
3.45 - 4.15 p.m. Coffee / Tea
4.15 - 6.00 p.m. Poetry and its Publishers
will be discussed by
John Kinsella (Chair)
Sharon Olds,
Joseph Parisi,
Alice Quinn and
Mary Jo Salter
6.00 p.m. Cambridge University Bookshop, Trinity Street
Reception and launch of the late Tony Tanner's book
The American Mystery
7.30 for 8 p.m. Saltmarsh Rooms, King's College
Reception and Dinner
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Sunday 19 March All events take place in Keynes Hall / Chetwynd Room
10 a.m. Coffee / Tea
10.30 - 12 noon 75 Years of the New Yorker
with: Bill Buford, Richard Gooder, Ellie Herrington, Edward Koren
and Alice Quinn
12 - 2 p.m. American-Style Brunch
2 - 2.40 p.m. William H. Gass - will read from his work
2.40 - 3.20 p.m. Tama Janowitz - will read from her work
3.20 - 3.45 p.m. Chetwynd Room
Tea
Arc Publishers will launch Mary Jo Salter's latest volume A Kiss in
Space
3.45 - 4.15p.m. Mary-Jo Salter - will read from her work
4.15 - 5 p.m. Stephen Fender: Closing address
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There will be an opportunity to visit
King's College Chapel during the lunch breaks
on Saturday and Sunday
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Tony Tanner's book The American Mystery
will be on sale during the Festival alongside those by other authors
present
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Trifles a short play by the American author Susan Glaspell
who also wrote Fidelity is being performed from 14 - 18 March
at the Playroom, St Edward's Passage,
opposite King's College in a double bill together with Ile, a play by
Eugene O'Neill.
The performances are at 11 p.m. - ideal as an after dinner diversion.
(tickets for this event from Arts Theatre Box Office, tel. 503333)
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