MICHIGAN SALVAGE: coversation & book signing w Contributors and Bonnie Jo C
Schedule
Tue, 11 Jul, 2023 at 06:30 pm
Location
3019 Oakland Drive,Kalamazoo,49008,US | Kalamazoo, MI
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Join Editor Lisa De Rose, contributing writers, & Bonnie Jo Campbell for a discussion of MICHIGAN SALVAGE: THE FICTION OF BONNIE JO CAMPBELLMichigan Salvage is the first scholarly collection on celebrated writer Bonnie Jo Campbell, the author of two novels and three short story collections, including 2009 National Book Award Finalist, American Salvage. Her writing captures a diverse and bustling rural America, brimming with complex characters who struggle with addiction, poverty, and land degradation—issues that have become, undeniably, part of the southwestern Michigan landscape that she calls home. The essays in this volume demonstrate many rich ways to approach Campbell’s writing, from historical and cultural overviews to essays examining the class and gender implications of her stories and novels, to teaching essays highlighting how to use her work in the classroom and beyond. Along with each essay, Michigan Salvage also features lesson plans and writing prompts meant to spark discussion and encourage further investigation into these stories and novels. This essential and teachable collection makes plain Campbell’s contributions to contemporary American literature.
This conversation will include Bonnie Jo Campell, Editor Lisa DrRose, and contributing writers Marsha Meyer and Becky Cooper.
Bios:
Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of the novels Once Upon a River, a National Bestseller, and Q Road. Her critically-acclaimed short fiction collections include American Salvage, which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critic’s Circle Award; Women and Other Animals, which won the AWP prize for short fiction; and Mothers, Tell Your Daughters (Autumn 2015). She has won a Pushcart Prize, the Eudora Welty Prize, and the Mark Twain Award. She was a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow. Her new novel The Waters is forthcoming from W.W. Norton in October 2023.
Lisa DuRose is an English faculty member at Inver Hills Community College in Minnesota, where she teaches courses in composition, the novel, and the short story. She has published essays in the Journal of College and Character, The Wallace Stevens Journal, and Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies. Her work on Bonnie Jo Campbell has appeared in Midwestern Miscellany, in Rain Taxi, and with Macmillan Learning. She is currently preparing a biography of Campbell.
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