Author reads at Russell House

Author Daniyal Mueenuddin

The 2012 Jacob Julien Visiting Writers

Wednesday, February 15^th, 2012

Russell House, 350 High Street, Middletown, CT

8 P.M.

Celebrated author Daniyal Mueenuddin will read from his recent work on Wednesday, February 15^th, 2012 at 8:00 P.M.in Wesleyan University’s Russell House, 350 High Street, Middletown, CT.

Daniyal Mueenuddin’s first story collection, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, was the 2010 winner of The Story Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, and other periodicals and in The Best American Short Stories 2008 (selected by Salman Rushdie) and PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2010. A graduate of Yale Law School, he practiced law in New York for a number of years. He now lives on a farm in Pakistan’s southern Punjab.

Of Mueenuddin’s recent work, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (W.W. Norton & Company), Robert Braile of The Boston Globe has said, “The eight short stories of Daniyal Mueenuddin’s enchanting debut are dreamlike, illuminating contemporary Pakistan’s societal contradictions in prose as clear and serene as the contradictions themselves are subtle and tumultuous.”

Mueenuddin’s collection was praised by Publishers Weekly: “An elegant stylist with a light touch, Mueenuddin invites the reader to a richly human, wondrous experience.”

Free and open to the public.

Reception and book signing to follow the reading.

For more information, please call 860.685.3448 or visit http://www.wesleyan.edu/writing/community/writing-events.html.