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PASSAGES Series: Jennifer Egan
Category: Education • Free • Lectures • Passages | Season: Re•Purpose
Jennifer Egan is coming to Omaha!
The University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha Public Library, and KANEKO present a two-day event with Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and President of PEN America, on Thursday, July 18, 2019, and Friday, July 19, 2019. Jennifer Egan will read from her most recent novel Manhattan Beach on Thursday, July 18, at 7:00 PM. After the reading, Egan will answer audience questions and sign copies of her work which will be available for purchase by The Bookworm. On Friday, July 19th, at 10:00 AM, Jennifer Egan will present on the mission of PEN America––” uniting writers and their allies to celebrate creative expression and defending the liberties that make it possible.”
The appearance of Jennifer Egan is presented by the University of Nebraska at Omaha MFA in writing program, UNO’s premier low-residency writing program, led by writer and UNO professor Kevin Clouther. These events are a part of Passages, KANEKO’s newest Core Literary Program, a collaboration between KANEKO and the UNO College of Communication, Fine Arts and Media and the College of Arts & Sciences.
Both events are free and open to the public. Registration is required.
Thursday, July 18 | 7:00 – 8:00 PM
Friday, July 19 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM | ***lunch will be provided
About Jennifer Egan: Egan is the author of A Visit From the Goon Squad, The Keep, Look at Me, The Invisible Circus, and the story collection Emerald City. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, GQ, Zoetrope, All-Story, and Ploughshares, and her nonfiction appears frequently in The New York Times Magazine. She lives with her husband and sons in Brooklyn. Her newest novel, Manhattan Beach, was published in October 2017 and was a New York Times bestseller.
About Passages: Passages is the core literary program at KANEKO that seeks to intersect and expand all offerings and forms of creative literary activities across the Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan area. Passages programming includes critical readings, interactive writing workshops and sessions, and events featuring accomplished and diverse authors.
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The Art of Storytelling: Lyric and Narrative Medicine
Category: Free • Lectures • Passages | Season: Human Condition
Bringing voice to medical practice.
Tension exists in current health and medical practice between the obligation to honor patients and their stories with the requirement to reduce stories to facilitate efficient diagnosis. In this presentation, John Price of the English Department/Creative Nonfiction Program at UNO and Kevin Clouther of the UNO MFA in Writing Program will discuss the importance of patient voice and personhood in literary work and activities as well as in the academic programs they both lead. Marya Hornbacher, award-winning journalist and bestselling author, will also share her perspective on writing and narrative medicine, with emphasis on the importance of patient voice in current health and medical practice.
Marya Hornbacher is the recipient of a host of awards for her books, journalism, essays, and poetry. Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for her first book, Marya has spent a prolific twenty-odd years writing and teaching across genres. Her published work includes Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (1998), The Center of Winter (2005), and Madness: A Bipolar Life (2008). She was recently honored with the Annie Dillard Award in Creative Nonfiction.
“The Art of Storytelling: Lyric and Narrative Medicine featuring Marya Hornbacher” will kick-off Passages, the new core literary program at KANEKO.
***If you missed this program, use the button below to watch the discussion with Marya.
About Marya Hornbacher: Marya Hornbacher is an award-winning essayist, journalist, novelist, poet, and the New York Times bestselling author of five books. Her sixth, a work of long-form journalism on psychiatry, neuroscience, and the future of mental health, is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2020; she is currently at work on a collection of essays. She is the recipient of the Annie Dillard Award for Nonfiction, a Logan Nonfiction Fellowship, the White Award for Magazine Journalism, the ASCAP Award for Music Journalism, the Fountain House Humanitarian Award, and other distinctions. Her writing has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Boston Globe, Smithsonian Magazine, Crazyhorse, AGNI, Gulf Coast, The Normal School, Fourth Genre, DIAGRAM, and many others. She is a professor in the graduate writing programs at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and Augsburg University.
About John Price: Director of the English Department’s Creative Nonfiction Writing program, Professor Price has authored three books of creative nonfiction, and edited a collection of tallgrass prairie nature writing. A recipient of a prose fellowship from the NEA and other recognitions, his creative nonfiction has been published in many journals, magazines and anthologies, including Orion, Creative Nonfiction, The Christian Science Monitor, The Iowa Review, and Best Spiritual Writing 2000. To investigate more of Professor Price’s work, visit www.johntprice.com.
About Kevin Clouther: Kevin Clouther was born in Boston and grew up on Cape Cod and in South Florida. His story collection, We Were Flying to Chicago, was published by Catapult. His stories have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, Puerto Del Sol, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn among other journals, and he has contributed essays to The Millions, NPR, Poets & Writers, Salon, and Tin House’s “Art of the Sentence.” He is the recipient of several grants and awards, including the Richard Yates Fiction Award and Gell Residency Award. He holds degrees from the University of Virginia and Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Before joining the University of Nebraska at Omaha, he was Associate Director of the Writing Program at Stony Brook University in New York.
About Passages: Passages is the core literary program at KANEKO that seeks to intersect and expand all offerings and forms of creative literary activities across the Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan area. Passages programming includes critical readings, interactive writing workshops and sessions, and events featuring accomplished and diverse authors.