Discussion and Booksigning with Stephen O'Connor

Date: Saturday, October 15, 1:00 pm
Location: Village Square Bookstore & Literary Arts Center, 7950 Main St, Rte 23A, Village of Hunter, NY
Hours: Monday, Thursday & Friday 10 am - 5 pm, Saturday 10 am - 7 pm, Sunday 10 am - 5 pm.
Information: 518 263 2050
Admission: FREE

Hear Stephen O'Connor read from and discuss his latest collection of short stories, Here Comes Another Lesson. His nonfiction books include the memoir, Will My Name Be Shouted Out?, and the narrative history, Orphan Trains, The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed.

His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Threepenny Review, Conjunctions, The Quarterly, Partisan Review, Electric Literature, TriQuarterly, and many other publications. His poetry has been in Poetry Magazine, The Missouri Review, Agni, Knockout, and Green Mountains Review. His essays and journalism have appeared in The New York Times, Doubletake, Agni, The Nation, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe and elsewhere.

He is the recipient of the Cornell Woolrich Fellowship in Creative Writing from Columbia University, the Visiting Fellowship for Historical Research by Artists and Writers from the American Antiquarian Society, and the DeWitt Wallace/Reader's Digest Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony. Will My Name Be Shouted Out? was named 1996 "Book of the Year" by Kappa Delta Pi, an education honor society. Orphan Trains was designated 2001 best book on "the roots of juvenile crime" by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency.