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The Bathhouse Reading Series brings in a number of writers and artists —both innovative established writers and exciting up-and-comers—who perform readings of their work and attend workshops to help students with theirs. See video of past readings and performances in the Photos/Video section. For more information on these readings, contact the EMU English Department at 734.487.4220 or email kivanoff [at] emich.edu.
FALL 2008
REBECCA BROWN
(Co-sponsored by Campus Life)
Sept. 29, 4 pm
Spoonberg Theater, Eastern Michigan University campus
 Rebecca Brown is the author of a dozen books of prose including The Last Time I Saw You, The End Of Youth, The Dogs, The Terrible Girls (CityLights) and The Gifts Of The Body (HarperCollins). A frequent collaborator, she has written numerous texts for dance; a play, The Toaster; and Woman Inill Fitting Wig, a book length collaboration with painter Nancy Kiefer. She recently co-edited, with Mary Jane Knecht, an anthology of writers' responses to work at the Frye Art Museum. American Romances, Brown's collection of gonzo essays, is forthcoming from City Lights.
Some links to her work: -
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/336866_writerinresidence26.html
- http://tarpaulinsky.com/ (archive issues # 12, 11, 8A);
- http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=23582
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Catherine Taylor and Kristin Prevallet
(Co-sponsored by Campus Life)
Oct. 15, 5 pm
Carillon Room, Halle Library, EMU
, Eastern Michigan University campus
Catherine Taylor is an Assistant Professor in Creative Nonfiction at Ithaca College. She is the author of Giving Birth: A Journey Into the World of Mothers and Midwives (Penguin Putnam) a book Library Journal called "a delightfully readable blend of scholarship, expose, and storytelling that is likely to become a classic." Taylor has worked as a producer, writer, and researcher on a number of PBS projects in New York City including "The Exiles" which won an Emmy award for historical programming, and she was a Co-founder and Producer of The Human Rights Watch Film Festival. Taylor attended Cornell and Oxford Universities and received her Ph.D. in English from Duke University. Her essays, poetry, and reviews have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Typo, Xantippe, Postmodern Culture, Quarter After Eight, Nightsun, and The Colorado Review. She is at work on a hybrid genre book about South Africa and a scholarly book about 20th-century documentary representations of political violence entitled Documents of Despair.
Catherine Taylor is an editor for Essay Press (
http://www.ithaca.edu/faculty/ctaylor/editors/index.html)
Find here prose poems, which are part of larger essay: http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/cr/back.htm
Kristin Prevallet is a poet, translator, and educator whose most recent books are I, Afterlife: Essay in Mourning Time (Essay Press, 2007) and Shadow, Evidence, Intelligence (Factory School, 2006). She introduced and edited A Helen Adam Reader (National Poetry Foundation, 2007). Recent essays and reviews appear in The Chicago Review, Contemporary Poetry Review, Jacket, and Janus Head. She received a
2007 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and a 2004 PEN translation fund award.
Kristen's website with with links to poems published online:
Kristen's blog:
- http://www.citizenkay.blogspot.com/
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Jim Sheppard and Ron Hansen
(Co-sponsored by Campus Life)
Oct. 29, 5 pm
Auditorium, Student Center, EMU
Jim Sheppard is the author of six novels, including most recently Project X, and three story collections, including most recently Like You'd Understand, Anyway, which was nominated for the National Book Award and won The Story Prize. His short fiction has appeared in, among other magazines, Harper's, McSweeney's, The Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Granta, the New Yorker and Playboy, and he is a columnist on film for the magazine The Believer. He teaches at Williams College.
Interview with Jim Shepard:
http://www.bookslut.com/features/2007_09_011635.php
Ron Hansen is the author, most recently, of the novel Isn't It Romantic? (Harper Collins, 2003) and a book of essays called A Stay Against Confusion: Essays on Faith and Fiction ( Harper Collins, 2001). Among his other books are Desperadoes (Knopf), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Knopf) Nebraska (Atlantic Monthly Press), Mariette in Ecstasy (Harper Collins) Atticus (Harper Collins) and a children's book, The Shadowmaker (Trophy Press). A native of Omaha, he received the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for Nebraska, a collection of short fiction. According to Contemporary Novelists, Hansen's books "occupy ... a curious half-way house between popular and high culture; between the worlds of art and entertainment." A book by Hansen provides a good read as well as a searching study of morality. He is Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Santa Clara University. His novel Atticus was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1996.
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WINTER 2008
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