Hunter College to Host Book Reading on October 1in Celebration of Two Hunter Professors' Recent Novels
Date: September 16, 2002
Contact: Marisa Osorio (marisa.osorio@hunter.cuny.edu)
Phone: (212) 772-4069
Hunter College will host a book reading to celebrate the recent novels by Jenefer Shute and Gary Shteyngart. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be on Tuesday, October 1 at 7:30 p.m. in Hunter's Lang Recital Hall, 4th Floor of the North Building (68th Street between Lexington and Park Avenues).
Shute, a professor in Hunter's MFA Program in Creative Writing, will be reading and signing her new novel Free Fall. Shteyngart, who is teaching a fiction course in Hunter's English department this fall, will read from his critically acclaimed debut novel The Russian Debutante's Handbook.
Shute is the author of the novels Life-Size and Sex Crimes, as well as numerous essays and articles in publications such as Harpers, the Nation, salon.com, the London Guardian, and many other journals. She is a native of Johannesburg, South Africa and the recipient of a 2001 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature.
Shteyngart's work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, and many other publications. A native of Leningrad, he graduated from Hunter College MFA program in 2002.
Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab, the English department and the MFA Program in Creative Writing are hosting the event.
Hunter College, founded in 1870, has long enjoyed a national reputation for excellence in liberal arts and sciences and professional education. Hunter's main campus, located on 68th Street on Manhattan's Upper East Side, consists of the School of Arts and Sciences and School of Education. The college also includes a school of Social Work on East 79th Street as well as the Schools of the Health Professions (Nursing and Health Sciences) located at the Brookdale Health Science Center on East 25th Street; an MFA building and art gallery on the West Side; and the Hunter College Campus Schools serving gifted and talented students, preschool through grade 12.
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