The Exhibit X Fiction Series showcases experimental and innovative fictions: from new novels to anti-novels, from criti-fictions to cross-genre writing, from hypermedia to the avant-pop…to whatever comes next, whatever that may be—fictions that, as yet, have no name.
Fall 2024
Percival Everett (9/20, 7pm, Asbury Hall) Co-Sponsored with the Humanities Institute.
Ed Park (10/8, 7pm, Hallwalls Cinema)
Percival Everett (9/20, 7pm, Asbury Hall) Co-Sponsored with the Humanities Institute.
Percival Everett is one of the most inventive and incisive writers in contemporary American literature. Hailed as a "literary icon" (Oprah Daily), he has written more than thirty books and won numerous prizes, among them a Pen/Jean Stein Award for Fiction, the Windham-Campbell Prize, and the Los Angeles Review of Books Lifetime Achievement Award. A Pulitzer Prize finalist (Telephone, 2022), his latest novel James—a reframing of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from “Jim’s” point of view—is currently a finalist for the Booker Prize. He is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Southern California.
Ed Park was born in Buffalo in 1970. Same Bed Different Dreams (2023), his second novel, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His debut novel, Personal Days (2008), was a finalist for the PEN Hemingway Award and other prizes. He was the editor of the Voice Literary Supplement, a founding editor of The Believer, and a book editor at Penguin Press. His reviews and essays appear in The New York Review of Books, Harper's, Bookforum, and many other places. A collection of his short fiction, published in The New Yorker and elsewhere, will appear next year. A co-editor of the anthology Buffalo Noir (2015), he lives in Manhattan and teaches at Princeton.
Fall 2022
When: Thursday Nov 3, 2022
Time: 7pm
Where: Hallwalls Cinema
Danielle Dutton is the author of Margaret the First, SPRAWL, Attempts at a Life, and the illustrated nonfiction chapbook A Picture Held Us Captive. Her fiction has appeared in such venues as The Paris Review, Harper's, BOMB, The White Review, and online at The New Yorker and Granta. She is an associate professor at Washington University in St. Louis and co-founder and editor of the award-winning feminist press Dorothy, a publishing project.
Morris Collins’s first novel, Horse Latitudes, was published in 2013 and was reissued by Dzanc Books in 2019. NPR described Horse Latitudes as “gripping and wildly entertaining …A hybrid narrative that's part thriller, part surreal noir, and part tropical gothic, it reads like a collaboration between William Faulkner, Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Hunter S. Thompson, as directed by David Lynch.” Other fiction and poetry has recently appeared in Pleiades, Gulf Coast, The Chattahoochee Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Nimrod among others. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.
Joanna Scott is the author of twelve books, including the novels Arrogance, Tourmaline, and Careers for Women, and two collections of short fiction, Various Antidotes and Everybody Loves Somebody. Her many awards include a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her novel, The Manikin, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and her stories have been included in Pushcart Prize anthologies and Best American Stories. She is the Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English and the Director of the Literary Arts Programs at the University at Rochester.
A Shuttle to the events will be provided:
Exhibit X Shuttle Schedule:
4:45pm: from Flint Loop to Salon
6:00pm: from Flint Loop to Hallwalls
8:00pm: Hallwalls to North campus
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