Reading with Adelle Waldman and Jeffrey McDaniel

Sarah Lawrence College announces the line-up for free nightly readings by literary luminaries open to the public June 21- June 26. The readings, which pair a poet and a prose writer, are part of the College’s Summer Seminar for Writers, a week-long creative writing intensive, founded in 1993 by poets Jane Cooper and Thomas Lux. They will take place on the College’s campus: 1 Mead Way, Bronxville/Yonkers, NY 10708 at 7:30 p.m. in the Donnelley Theatre of the Heimbold Visual Arts Center. For more information, please call (914) 395-2412 or e-mail: collegeevents@sarahlawrence.edu. This is a reading with Adelle Waldman (New Yorker’s best of 2013 list) and Jeffrey McDaniel (NEA Fellow).

Adelle Waldman’s first novel, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., was named one of 2013’s best books by The New Yorker, The New Republic, Slate, The Economist, NPR, BookPage, The Guardian, and others. The novel is being translated into more than a dozen languages. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Slate, The Wall Street Journal and many others publications.

Jeffrey McDaniel is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Chapel of Inadvertent Joy. His other books include The Endarkenment, The Splinter Factory, The Forgiveness Parade, and Alibi School. He’s received an NEA fellowship for creative writing and been published in many journals and anthologies, including Ploughshares, Field, American Poetry Review, and Best American Poetry 1994 and 2010. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.