Tuesday, September 18  John Irving 7 p.m. in the Osterhout Concert Theater
photo by Jane Sobel Klonsky	John Irving is the inaugural reader in the John Gardner Reader Series. Irving first won wide acclaim for his fourth novel, The World According to Garp, which garnered a nomination for the National Book Award. He is the author of numerous international bestsellers, including Garp, Cider House Rules, Hotel New Hampshire and A Prayer for Owen Meany. Many of his novels have been made into films and Irving won an Academy Award for his filmscript adaptation of Cider House Rules. His eleventh and most recent novel is Until I Find You. This reading will be followed by a Q & A session and a reception in the President's Reception Room. No book signing is planned as Mr. Irving prefers to spend his time chatting with students, faculty, and other attendees. This reading sponsored by Jean-Pierre Mileur, Dean of Harpur College; Provost Mary Ann Swain; the English Department; the Center for Writers; and the Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies.
Tuesday, October 9   Susan Campbell Bartoletti 8 p.m. in Science One Room 149
	BU alum Bartoletti is an award-winning writer of children’s literature, including the Newbury Honor book Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow and the Sibert Gold Medal-winning Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850. Her other nonfiction books include Kids on Strike and Growing Up in Coal Country. She has four books of historical fiction, including The Journal of Finn Reardon, Newsie, New York City, 1899 and the forthcoming The Boy Who Dared.
MONDAY, October 22   W.D. Snodgrass 8 p.m. in Science One Room 149
photo credit: Kathleen Snodgrass	The 2007 Milton Kessler Distinguished Poetry Reader. The author of over 30 books of poetry, criticism, memoir, and translation, Snodgrass won the Pulitzer Prize for his first collection of poetry, Heart's Needle. He has been a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist three times: for The Fuehrer Bunker (poetry, 1977), for De/Compositions (criticism, 2001), and most recently for his new and selected poetry collection, Not for Specialists (2006). Among his honors are fellowships from the Guggenheim and Ingram Merrill foundations, the Academy of American Poets, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Sponsored by friends of Milton Kessler and the Center for Writers, State University of New York.
Tuesday, October 30   Katherine Arnoldi & Jennifer Pashley 8 p.m. in Science One Room 149
Katherine Arnoldi and Jennifer Pashley	Both of these authors are current BU graduate students. Arnoldi is an award-winning graphic novelist and her first collection of short stories, All Things Are Labor, was published this summer as the winner of the Juniper Prize from the University of Massachusetts Press. Pashley's stories have garnered many honors and her collection States has just been published by Lewis Clark Press.
Tuesday, November 13   Maria Mazziotti Gillan 8 p.m. in Science One Room 149
	Professor Gillan is the Director of the Binghamton Center for Writers and she will be reading from her newest collection of poetry, All That Lies Between Us. Her numerous other books include Where I Come From and Italian Women in Black Dresses and the multi-cultural anthologies she edited with her daughter, Jennifer Gillan, Unsettling America and Identity Lessons. Her poems have frequently been featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac.