{"id":501,"date":"2013-11-18T09:56:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T14:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/?p=501"},"modified":"2015-03-19T15:20:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T19:20:51","slug":"visiting-author-laird-hunt-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/2013\/11\/18\/visiting-author-laird-hunt-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Author Laird Hunt Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-502\" alt=\"Laird Hunt Head Shot\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/files\/2013\/11\/Laird-Hunt-Head-Shot.jpg\" width=\"201\" height=\"185\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are very happy to announce that visiting author Laird Hunt will be reading\u00a0from his most recent work at the Eck Center Auditorium on November 20<sup>th<\/sup>, 2013 at 7:30 pm.\u00a0The reading is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/files\/2013\/11\/Laird-Hunt-Kind-One-Cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-503\" alt=\"Laird Hunt Kind One Cover\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/files\/2013\/11\/Laird-Hunt-Kind-One-Cover-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/files\/2013\/11\/Laird-Hunt-Kind-One-Cover-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/files\/2013\/11\/Laird-Hunt-Kind-One-Cover.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHunt\u2019s most recently published novel, <i>Kind One<\/i>, has been lauded for its ability to \u201cconsign existential dread into the service of narratives that read the way blindfolded roller-coaster rides might feel\u201d (<i>Shelf Awareness<\/i>). The novel follows the decay of an antebellum, slaveholding family over multiple generations, painting a microcosmic portrait of the violence and pain caused during that historic period of American life while also displaying its effects on later generations.<\/p>\n<p>Hunt is the award-winning author of a book of short stories, mock parables and histories, <em>The Paris Stories<\/em> (2000), originally from Smokeproof Press, though now re-released by Marick Press, and five novels from Coffee House Press: <em>The Impossibly<\/em> (2001), <em>Indiana, Indiana<\/em> (2003), <em>The Exquisite<\/em> (2006) <em>Ray of the Star<\/em> (2009) and <em>Kind One<\/em> (2012), which was a finalist for both the 2013 Pen\/Faulkner award and the 2013 Pen USA Literary Award in Fiction and the winner of a 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction. His writings, reviews and translations have appeared in the United States and abroad in, among other places, the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>, the\u00a0<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>,\u00a0<em>McSweeney\u2019s<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Ploughshares<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Bomb<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Bookforum<\/em>,<em>\u00a0Grand Street<\/em>,<em>\u00a0The Believer<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Fence<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Conjunctions<\/em>,<em>\u00a0Brick<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Mentor<\/em>,<em>\u00a0Inculte<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Zoum Zoum<\/em>. Currently on faculty in the University of Denver\u2019s Creative Writing Program, where he edits the\u00a0<em>Denver Quarterly<\/em>, he has had residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, and was in residence at Marfa (Lannan Foundation) this past summer.<\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you there,<br \/>\nDev &#8217;15<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very happy to announce that visiting author Laird Hunt will be reading\u00a0from his most recent work at the Eck Center Auditorium on November 20th, 2013 at 7:30 pm.\u00a0The reading is free and open to the public. 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