[NEohioPAL] TONIGHT AT 7: Dan Chaon at The Alcazar

[Jean Seitter Cummins]

FIRST MONDAYS welcomes award-winning novelist Dan Chaon to The Alcazar
tonight at 7 p.m. Dan's most recent book AWAIT YOUR REPLY was named one of
the ten best books of the year by Publisher's Weekly, Entertainment Weekly,
Janet Maslin of The New York Times, and Laura Miller of salon.com. He is
also the author of the short story collections Fitting Ends and Among the
Missing, which was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award, and the
novel You Remind Me of Me. His fiction has appeared in many journals and
anthologies, including Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and
The O. Henry Prize Stories. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine
Award in Fiction, and he was the recipient of the 2006 Academy Award in
Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Dan expects to read something from his upcoming collection, Stay Awake,
which is due out in Spring of 2012. A professor of Creative Writing at
Oberlin College, he’ll also bring two of his senior creative writing
students with him.  Abbey Chung and Pat Bernhard, who have already garnered
substantial resumes, will also read their work.

The landmark Alcazar is located at 2450 Derbyshire, just at the top of Cedar
Hill in the Cedar-Fairmount neighborhood. Admission is $5 at the door.
Parking is available on the street and in the metered double decker parking
structure just off Cedar at Surrey. Call (216) 321-5400 on the day of the
program for access to the handicapped parking and elevator entrance.

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