Final author in the Midnight Sun Visiting Writer Series April 20
April 12, 2012
Dana Spiotta is featured as the final author in the 2011-12 Midnight Sun Visiting Writer Series at 7 p.m., Friday, April 20, in the Wood Center Ballroom.Spiotta graduated from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington in 1993. Scribner published her first novel, Lightning Field, in 2001. The Los Angeles Times called it “The hippest, funniest, most urbane and heartfelt account of life west of the 101 and north of the 10 to come along in years.” It was a New York Times Notable Book of the year, and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the West.
Her second novel, Eat the Document, was published in 2006 by Scribner. It was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award and a recipient of the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The New York Times called Eat The Document “stunning” and described it as “a book that possesses the staccato ferocity of a Joan Didion essay and the razzle-dazzle language and the historical resonance of a Don DeLillo novel.”
Stone Arabia is Spiotta’s third novel. Scribner published it in 2011. Stone Arabia is a National Book Critics Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of 2011. It was named a best book of 2011 by The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Entertainment Weekly and Salon.
Since the 1970’s, the Midnight Sun Writer Series has brought many of the nation’s finest writers to Alaska, and the writers scheduled to appear this year will add to that proud tradition. All readings are free and open to all. For more information, visit www.uaf.edu/english/.