Chris Bachelder will be here the last week of March, doing a reading on Thursday, March 31.

It would be great to have Todd Hasak-Lowy back.


Margaret Luongo
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor, Creative Writing
Miami University
Department of English
356 Bachelor Hall
Oxford, OH 45056
(513) 529-3237
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Dear Writers,

    I’m sure it’s somewhere on my computer, but I’m unable to locate a list of scheduled reading dates for next semester.  Oy!

   So I’d be grateful if my esteemed and gentle colleagues would send me any dates for next reading dates for next semester.   One of the reasons for this request at this time—isn’t next semester far, far off?--is the following request/email from Erik Rose, a colleague of mine in the Jewish Studies steering committee.

    I’ve invited Todd Hasak-Lowy to present next spring in the Posen lecture series. I know Todd and think highly of his work. He’s an Associate Professor of Hebrew at U Florida Gainesville. But more to the point, he’s also a creative writer with a collection of stories, The Task of This Translator (Mariner Books, 2005), and a novel, Captives (Spiegel & Grau, 2008), to his credit.  (I’ve read the former, which is great, but not the latter, which was less well received.) I wonder if Creative Writing might want to piggy-back and have Todd do a reading while he’s on campus? It would not only be a cheap date, it could even be free, as we could feature the reading as part of our Jewish Arts & Culture series and pay for it with Posen funds. Of course, if CW wanted to chip in a small amount and co-sponsor, that would be great.Todd tells me he’s been writing a lot and has lots of new fiction to read from.

He’ll give his Posen lecture on Thursday, March 17, 2011 and could do a reading on the same day, or a day before or after.


     Todd Hasak-Lowy read here during the 2006-2007 year, when I was away.  Margaret, I believe you hosted that reading.   Would it do to have him read again, bearing in mind that it would cost nothing or next to nothing?


I’m also writing now because I’ve been contacted by my agent, who also represents John Casey, who won the National Book Award in 1989 for Spartina, to say that Casey has a new novel coming out that is sort of a sequel to Spartina, and that Casey would probably be willing to come for the price of his plane ticket from Charlottesville (he teaches at UVA).  I’m sort of interested in this notion, and, therefore, need to think about scheduling.


Finally, please let me know if you’re interested in reading at Writers Harvest, which will take place on Thursday, October 21st—two weeks from tonight—at 7 pm in Leonard Hall.


Eric