APSU to host reading by Young adult author Nnedi Okorafor
July 7, 2012
Clarksville, TN – The author Nnedi Okorafor doesn¹t write stories that feel tired or predictable. Her books, which mash up literary genres from African literature to science fiction and fantasy, stand out for their originality and their abilities to take young readers on unexpected journeys.
“There’s more vivid imagination in a page of Nnedi Okorafor’s work than in whole volumes of ordinary fantasy epics,” the celebrated author Ursula K. Le Guin wrote in a recent review. [Read more]
Award-winning writer Richard Bausch to read at APSU on October 28th
October 23, 2010
Clarksville, TN – The great short story writer Bernard Malamud once wrote, “In a few pages a good story provides the complexity of life while producing the surprise and effect of knowledge.”
Anyone familiar with the work of Richard Bausch knows that the Memphis-based writer clearly understands this principle, leading him to become the late Malamud’s heir as the American master of short fiction. [Read more]
