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Garth Greenwell: U-M English Department Zell Visiting Writers Series
This novelist, literary critic, and one-time Greenhills English teacher reads from and discusses his work. His debut novel, What Belongs to You, about an American teacher who becomes entangled with a male prostitute in Bulgaria, won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, and his most recent book Small Rain, a continuation of the same narrative that finds the protagonist hospitalized during the Covid-19 pandemic, was named a 2024 Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker and many others. Q&A. Also, tomorrow Greenwell gives a free craft lecture titled “Daddy Augustine: Against ‘Autofiction’” (10–11 a.m., Michigan Union Wolverine Rm.). 5:30–6:30 p.m., UMMA Stern Auditorium, 525 S. State. Livestream available for both programs at tinyurl.com/umzell25-26. Free. [email protected].
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