What: Reading to Celebrate Carol Bly
Where: Open Book
When: Friday, May 30, 2008 • 7 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Carol Bly, who died in December 2007, was the author of books of short stories and essays, and books about how to write stories and nonfiction and how to teach creative writing. Recognized as a nationally acclaimed private writing consultant, Carol was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Carleton, the Edelstein-Keller Distinguished Author at the University of Minnesota, and the recipient of the 2001 Minnesota Humanities Award for Literature. Her papers are in the Literary Manuscripts Collections in the Manuscripts Division here at the Libraries. In addition to family and friends reading from her works in celebration of the publication of her posthumous novel Shelter Half, Al Lathrop, curator of the Manuscripts Division, will be speaking at the event.

Cosponsored by The Loft Literary Center, Holy Cow! Press, and the University of Minnesota Libraries Archives & Special Collections.