CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 10, 2014. Valeria Luiselli, the author of the novel Faces in the Crowd and the essay collection Sidewalks (both published by Coffee House Press), will read and discuss her work at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15 in Roosevelt University’s Gage Gallery, 18 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago.
The reading is free and open to the public, and is part of the Roosevelt University’s Creative Writing Program Fall Reading Series. The event is presented in conjunction with Make Magazine’s Lit and Luz Festival, which is promoting artists and writers from Mexico City at various venues throughout Chicago on Oct. 15-18.
Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983, grew up in South Africa, currently resides in New York City, and earned her PhD in Comparative Literature at Columbia University. In addition to her books, she has published work in The New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney’s. Luiselli also creates visual, audio, and dance-based art.
Jeffrey Zuckerman of The Los Angeles Review of Books calls Luiselli’s work “a nuanced chorus of wishes and regrets, visions and hopes,” and novelist Enrique Vila-Matas offered this praise for Luiselli: “I’m completely captivated by the beauty of the paragraphs, the elegance of the prose, the joy in the written word, and the literary sense of this author.”
Free and open to the public, the reading is presented by the MFA in Creative Writing Program, the University’s literary magazine Oyez Review, and the Department of Literature and Languages at Roosevelt University.
Source: roosevelt.edu
