Date:
Tuesday, February 6, 2007.
7:30 PM.<BR/>

Location: Pigott Hall (Building 260), Room 113<BR/><BR/>

<p>Please join us for a reading by Peter Orner, the highly acclaimed author of the new novel The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo. Dave Eggers calls The Second Coming &#8220;a gorgeously written book, very funny, and bursting with soul&#8221; (Guardian UK), while Steve Almond in the Boston Globe proclaims, &#8220;With this staggering debut novel, Orner has joined the first rank of American writers.&#8221; </p>
<p>Orner is the winner of the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship. His work has appeared in The Atlantic and Paris Review, as well as Best American Stories and the Pushcart Prize XXV. His first book, Esther Stories, was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for a PEN/Hemingway Award. He teaches at San Francisco State University.</p>
<p>Tuesday, February 6</p>
<p>7:30 pm</p>
<p>Building 260 (Pigott Hall), Room 113</p>
<p>FREE </p><BR/>