Acclaimed Novelist Zadie Smith Gives Free Public Reading Tonight
Author Zadie Smith
Internationally acclaimed author Zadie Smith will give a free reading of her work as the 2015 Distinguished Reader for the University of Arkansas Program in Creative Writing and Translation. The event will take place at 7 p.m. tonight, Oct. 5, in conjunction with Fayetteville's True Lit literary festival and will be held at the Fayetteville Public Library.
This reading is open to the public. No advance tickets are required. Seating for 400 is available on a first-come, first-served basis. The library will open for seating at 6:30 p.m. A book signing will follow.
Click here for full details about the reading and about Smith's work. True Lit, Fayetteville's annual literary festival, takes place Oct. 1-8 and includes a host of literary events, including an author talk by two-time Newberry Award-winner Lois Lowry. A full schedule is available on the festival website.
The U of A Program in Creative Writing and Translation Distinguished Readers Series is made possible by the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of English, and the James E. and Ellen Wadley Roper Professorship in Creative Writing. Past Distinguished Readers have included W.S. Merwin, Joyce Carol Oates, Dorianne Laux, and Shahrnush Parsipur.
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Allison Hammond, assistant director
Program in Creative Writing & Translation
479-575-4301,
mfa@uark.edu
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