Blogagaard To Interview Frederick Busch at Hamline University



GLS to host writer Frederick Busch for a Reading October 17, and Public Interview October 18.
He will give a reading in Sundin Performance Hall at 7:30pm on Monday, October 17. Several of his more recent books will be available for sale prior to the reading. On Tuesday, October 18, he will participate in a public interview with GLS Dean Mary Rockcastle and MFA student David Oppegaard in Giddens Alumni Learning Center, Room 100E at 7:30pm. An edited version of the interview will be published in the fall 2006 volume of Water-Stone Review.
Frederick Busch is Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate University where he teaches creative writing and directs the Living Writers program. He is the author of over seventeen novels, four collections of short stories, two works of nonfiction, and numerous essays and articles. His short story collection, The Children in the Woods: New and Selected Stories was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, as was his acclaimed novel, The Night Inspector. He has received the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in short fiction, the National Jewish Book Award, and fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundations. Busch has been described as a "writer's writer". He peoples his writing with ordinary, albeit intelligent people who attempt to lead "just and...loving lives." The domesticity that inhabits his work is the vehicle by which he seeks to convey the extraordinariness of everyday life. Marriages, relation-ships, the death of children, the impact of war on ordinary citizens, and the inner workings of ones' life all are revealed in his writing.
His latest book is North: A Novel, published by W. W. Norton & Company (May 2005) These events are free and open to the public.