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Department of English > On the Run Lecture Series - 2007-08
On the Run Lecture Series: The English Department's creative, critical, and always adventurous visiting speaker series.
All events are open to the public and free of charge.
Lake Forest College is located in Lake Forest, Illinois, near the intersection of College and Sheridan Road and is accessible by METRA. For more information please call 847-735-6010.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Nick Mamatas
7:00 pm
Powell's Bookstore
2850 North Lincoln
Chicago, Illinois
773) 248-1444
Nick Mamatas is the author of the short novel Northern Gothic, the Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild-nominated Lovecraftian Beat road novel Move Under Ground, and a novel of neighborhood nuclear proliferation for children, Under My Roof. His short fiction has appeared in the Mississippi Review Online, Razor, Polyphony, Strange Horizons, and his essays and reportage in the Village Voice, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, In These Times, Poets & Writers, The Writer, Pages, and many other venues.
A native New Yorker, Nick lives outside of Boston, edits the "new writer" section Clarkesworld Magazine, and is pursuing an MFA in Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University.
September 25, 2007
John Kinsella
Meyer Auditorium
4:00-5:00 pm
John Kinsella is the author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose. The editor of the international literary journal Salt, and International Editor of The Kenyon Review, Kinsella is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and was Professor of English from 2001-2005 at Kenyon College in the United States. He is now Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. His Peripheral Light: New and Selected Poems (selected and introduced by Harold Bloom), was published in 2003 by WW Norton, followed by The New Arcadia in 2005. Salt published his collected experimental poems, Doppler Effect, in 2004.
November 6, 2007
Eckhard Gerdes
Meyer Auditorium
4:00-5:00 pm
Eckhard Gerdes earned an MFA in writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, but not before one teacher threatened to choke Eckhard to death for producing writing that was too innovative. Eckhard's true teachers have been the voices he heard through literature—Brautigan, Patchen, Joyce, Beckett, Federman, Barth, Jaffe, Burroughs, Acker, Moorcock, Calvino, Ionesco, and the amazing Arno Schmidt, to name a few—and the voices he has heard through other art forms, such as Clyfford Still, Picasso, Pollack, Kraan, Captain Beefheart, Firesign Theatre, Pere Ubu, Stockhausen, Webern, and, of course, the Doors. These are the voices of the idiosyncratic. They will be heard long after the weak voices have faded.
He lives near Chicago with two of his sons, Ludwig and Ulysses. His oldest son, Sterling, is away at college at Georgia Tech. Occasionally, Eckhard publishes The Journal of Experimental Fiction. At times, he writes about literature for The Review of Contemporary Fiction, American Book Review, and Electronic Book Review. His fiction appears in various journals every now and then. Przewalski's Horse and The Million-Year Centipede are his fifth and sixth published novel. Two more, Nin & Nan and The Unwelcome Guest are scheduled for fall 2007 publication by Six Gallery Press.