CHARLES BAXTER & JOAN SILBER TO READ AT NYU, NOV. 6

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Two distinguished fiction writers - Charles Baxter and Joan Silber - will read from their work on Thursday, November 6, 7 p.m., at New York University's Bobst Library, Fales Collection (3rd floor), 70 Washington Square South. This event, which is free and open to the public, is part of the NYU Creative Writing Program Reading Series. For further information, call (212) 998-8816.

Charles Baxter is the author of the novels The Feast of Love, which was a finalist for the 2000 National Book Award, Shadow Play and First Light, as well as four books of short stories, three collections of poetry and a book of essays. His new novel is Saul and Patsy. Baxter is the recipient of awards from the NEA, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. He teaches at the University of Michigan.

Joan Silber's most recent novel is Lucky Us. She won the PEN/Hemingway Award for her first novel, Household Words, and has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her collection of short stories In My Other Life was a finalist for the 2001 Paterson Fiction Prize. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and the Paris Review, among other magazines. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

The next event in the NYU Creative Writing Program Reading Series will be "Paule Marshall and The New Generation Series" on December 4.

The NYU Creative Writing Program, with permanent faculty members E.L. Doctorow, Galway Kinnell, Paule Marshall, and Sharon Olds, has distinguished itself for two decades as a leading national center for the study of literature and writing. The Creative Writing Program Director is Melissa Hammerle. The Reading Series, sponsored in cooperation with the NYU Book Centers and the Fales Collection at NYU, is a vital component of the Writing Program, bringing both established and new writers to NYU.

The NYU Creative Writing Program Reading Series is made possible by generous support from the Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund, established in The New York Community Trust by the founders of the Reader's Digest Association.

10/13/03