Writing At Wesleyan

Writing At Wesleyan presents

Author Colum McCann

The 2012 Annie Sonnenblick Lecturer

Wednesday, February 29^th, 2012

Memorial Chapel, 221 High Street, Middletown, CT

8 P.M.

Celebrated author Colum McCann will read from his recent work on Wednesday, February 29^th, 2012 at 8:00 P.M. in Wesleyan University’s Memorial Chapel, 221 High Street, Middletown, CT.

Mr. McCann comes to campus to deliver the Annie Sonnenblick lecture, a major annual event that brings a distinguished literary figure to campus each year.

Colum McCann’s most recent book, Let the Great World Spin, was described by Esquire as the first major post-9/11 novel, and received the 2009 National Book Award, an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the 2011 IMPAC International Prize. “Leave it to an Irishman,” said Dave Eggers, "to write one of the greatest-ever novels about New York.” McCann’s six other books include Zoli, Dancer, and This Side of Brightness. He teaches in the creative writing program at Hunter College.

Of McCann’s recent work, Let the Great World Spin, Jonathan Mahler has said in the New York Times Book Review, "One of the most electric, profound novels in years. Let the Great World Spin is an emotional tour de force. It is a heartbreaking book, but not a depressing one.”

Ruth Scurr praised McCann’s title in The Telegraph: "McCann makes his prose dance across the surface of this ingeniously constructed novel. He is a fearless writer, experimenting with narrative styles, leaping from one story to the next.”

Free and open to the public.

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.

Attached is a photo of Colum McCann for your use.