JEFFREY RENARD ALLEN
Tuesday, October 28 at 7:30 p.m.

Here from New York, where he teaches African-American literature at Queens College/CUNY is highly regarded fiction writer and poet Jeffrey Renard Allen. A prizewinning novelist (for Rails Under My Back) and poet, he is here with a powerful short-story collection, Holding Pattern (Graywolf). "Jeffrey Renard Allen's poetic vision is stunning, tragic, wildly funny, and, most of all, alive. He is the rare writer who, by creating a unique and surreal dreamscape, illuminates, illuminates human reality on the deepest level. He is also the rare writer who borrows from no one and doesn't pander to anyone." – Mary Gaitskill. "The best stories in this collection linger—haunted, unique, disturbing—the voice throughout are original, demanding—talk that walks." – John Edgar Wideman.

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