Charles Holdefer
EVENTS
¤ Charles' next novel, Back in
the Game, will be published in
2012.
¤ A new essay will appear in
late 2011 in The New England
Review. New short fiction is
also forthcoming in Gargoyle.
¤ For a recent essay on "Mind
Rhyme," see the Winter 2009
issue of The Antioch Review.
¤ Casa Editrice Fernandel,
the Italian publisher of The
Contractor, has released its
translation:
traduzione: Elena Battista
prezzo: € 14,00
isbn: 978-88-95865-03-4
¤ Centropolygraph has
purchased rights for a
Russian edition of The
Contractor.
Release date TBA.
.
NEWS
2011
¤ September 9: Reading and
conference about The
Contractor at the colloquium
September 11 and the World:
Politics, Culture & Identity.
UFR Lettres et Langues,
Université de Poitiers, France.
¤ July 17-22: Iowa Summer
Writing Festival, "Novel
Fundamentals"
¤ April 8-9: "Still Kicking:
George Saunders and 'Moral
Realism'" at the international
conference The Figure of the
Author in the Short Story,
University of Angers, France
2010
¤ July 25-30: Iowa Summer
Writing Festival, "Novel
Fundamentals"
¤ March 19-20: "As Surely
Doomed as the Hippopotamus:
George Orwell and the
Anachronistic Writer", at the
International Conference,
"George Orwell: A Political
Conscience of the 20th
Century" Université de
Charles de Gaulle Lille 3,
Lille, France.
2009
¤ March 13: "Performing the
Curmudgeon", 2 p.m., PSWM
Seminar, salle 16, l'Université
Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle,
5, rue de l’Ecole de Médecine,
75006 Paris
¤ June 7-12: Iowa Summer
Writing Festival, "Novel
Fundamentals"
¤ June 20-21: Iowa Summer
Writing Festival, "Focus on
Character"
2008
¤ June 12: Philadelphia
Stories/Rosemont Writers’
Retreat
Reading and Discusson
10:30 a.m.
Lawrence Auditorium
1400 Montgomery Ave
Rosemont , PA
¤ July 22: "Live at Prairie
Lights", 7:00 p.m.
Prairie Lights Books
15 S. Dubuque
Iowa City, IA
WSUI (910 AM) and WOI (640
AM & 90.1 FM)
¤ July 23: Guest Speaker
Elevenses Series
“More Bad Sex”
11 a.m.
101 Becker Communication
Studies Center
Iowa City, IA
¤ Sept. 19: Chicago's LaSalle
Book Club will be discussing
The Contractor.
¤ Oct. 15: Reading & Signing
at Reinert Library,
2500 California Plaza
Creighton University
Omaha, NE

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