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Still No Word from You: An Evening of Readings from Authors Peter Orner, Sara Lippmann, Ricardo Siri and Vievee Francis
January 12, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
An evening of author readings from new works presented by JAM and the Norwich Bookstore
Brooklyn-based short story writer Sara Lippmann reads from her first novel, Lech (published fall 2022). Illustrator and cartoonist Ricardo Siri reads excerpts from his graphic novels. Poet and Professor of Creative Writing Vievee Francis reads selections from her work. And Norwich-based author Peter Orner read selections from his newly released non-fiction collection, Still No Word From You. Free & open to the public, RSVP required.
Books for sale at JAM thanks to the Norwich Bookstore with book signing to follow.
“Orner is a highly lauded author whose writing, in both fiction and nonfiction, is an act of wizardry. In each of these micro-essays, he reduces the meat of his own life down to the bone, then stirs in fatty excerpts from hundreds of stories, novels and poems by writers ranging from Woolf to Rhys, Babel to Kafka. The resulting brew sometimes scalds, sometimes soothes, but always proves that literature can be a kind of sustenance.”
– New York Times Book Review
A San Francisco Chronicle Favorite Book of 2022:
“This book is never leaving my possession.”
– Kathryn Ma, The San Francisco Chronicle
“Still No Word from You Redefines the Experience of Reading…Orner shape shifts and time travels.”
– Los Angeles times
“Peter Orner’s work clings close to life, to the unadorned, dead and haunting Actual.”
– Marilynne Robinson
If RSVP’s reach capacity, please join us virtually! Livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1baD_54hW4