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Noted Writer Tom Williams to Read at Roosevelt University on April 18


Tom Williams

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 12, 2016.  Tom Williams, whose book Among the Wild Mulattos was named one of the best of 2015 by National Public Radio, will read from his work at 5 p.m. Monday, April 18 in Roosevelt University’s seventh floor Gage Building, 18 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago.

“You could call (Williams) an author to watch, but he’s really a writer we should have been watching a long time ago,” said NPR’s Michael Schaub, who defined Williams as “an uncompromising writer with a fiercely original voice…(who) questions the idea of human uniqueness.”

His most recent work, a short story collection titled Among the Wild Mulattos and Other Tales, was published in 2015 by Texas Review Press and has since put him on the map as one of today’s promising writers.

“(The novel) is playful, inventive, and hilarious…these stories are an unpretentious, compulsively readable delight,” said Michael Copperman, from The Rumpus.

Currently the chair of English at Morehead State University in Kentucky, Williams is also the author of The Mimic’s Own Voice, published in 2011, and Don’t Start Me Talkin’ in 2014. His story “Dear Dad” appeared in the anthology Daddy Cool in 2013 and he was also a collaborator on Four Fathers in 2014.

Part of Roosevelt’s Spring Reading Series, the event is free and open to the public. Sponsors include the University’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program, the University’s literary magazine, Oyez Review, and Roosevelt’s Department of Literature and Languages.

For more information, contact Christian Tebordo at [email protected] or 312-341-2417.

Source: http://www.roosevelt.edu


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