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Reed College's Fall 2005 Visiting Writer's Series continues on November 3 with author Greg Bottoms
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WHEN | 8 p.m. on Thursday, November 3. |
WHERE | Psychology Auditorium, Room 105, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., Portland (Use East Parking Lot off 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. |
Greg Bottoms
Bottoms' first book, the memoir Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness, was an Esquire"Book of the Year" in 2000. Sentimental, Heartbroken Rednecks: Stories, which blurs across the genres of memoir, the essay, and fiction, was published in 2001 to wide critical acclaim. His writing has appeared in Esquire, The Oxford American, Salon, Creative Nonfiction, The North American, and elsewhere, and his criticism regularly appears in Bookforum. He is currently completing The Colorful Apocalypse, a travel narrative about his visits and interviews with three Christian fundamentalist Outsider artists in the U.S. An assistant professor of English at the University of Vermont, he now lives in northwestern New England.###
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.