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Reed College's Spring 2006 Visiting Writer's Series debuts on February 2 with Adam Johnson


Adam Johnson, author of the much acclaimed debut collection of short stories, Emporium, will read selections from his writing and answer questions from the audience.


WHAT

Adam Johnson, author of the much acclaimed debut collection of short stories, Emporium; whose novel Parasites Like Us received the California Book Award; and whose fiction has appeared in Esquire, Harper's, and The Paris Review, as well as Best New American Voices four years running, will read selections from his writing and answer questions from the audience. Afterwards, there will be a book signing. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, Johnson now teaches at Stanford University.

 

WHEN

8 p.m. on Thursday, February 2.

 

WHERE

Psychology Auditorium, Room 105, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., Portland (Use East Parking Lot off of SE Woodstock Blvd.)

 

COST

Free and open to the public

 

CONTACT

For more information, the public is asked to visit the Reed events website at events.reed.edu or call the Reed events hotline at 503/777-7755.



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Reed College

Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, is an undergraduate institution of the liberal arts and sciences dedicated to sustaining the highest intellectual standards in the country. With an enrollment of about 1,360 students, Reed ranks third in the undergraduate origins of Ph.D.s in the United States and second in the number of Rhodes Scholars from a liberal arts college (31 since 1915). For more information, visit web.reed.edu.


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