Parks & Halliday reading at BU

evening of Fiction and Poetry: Tim Parks and Mark Halliday
Thursday, October 13th at 7pm at the BU Castle, 225 Bay State Road

Born in Manchester in 1954, Tim Parks studied at Cambridge and Harvard before moving permanently to Italy in 1981. Author of three bestselling books on Italy, plus a dozen novels, including the Booker short-listed Europa, he has translated works by Moravia, Calvino, Calasso and, most recently, Machiavelli. While running a post-graduate degree course in translation at IULM University, Milan, he writes regularly for the LRB and the NYRB. His non-fiction works include, Translating Style, a literary approach to translation problems; Medici Money, an account of the relation between banking, the Church and art in the 15th century; and, most recently, Teach Us to Sit Still.

Mark Halliday teaches at Ohio University. His books of poems are Little Star (William Morrow,1987), Tasker Street (University of Massachusetts, 1992), Selfwolf (University of Chicago, 1999), Jab (University of Chicago, 2002), and Keep This Forever (Tupelo Press, 2008). His critical study Stevens and the Interpersonal appeared in 1991 from Princeton University Press. He co-authored with Allen Grossman a book on poetics, The Sighted Singer (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991).

Free and open to the public. A reception will follow. There will also be books for sale. Supported by the BU Center for the Humanities, and the College of General Studies. This event serves as a prelude to this weekend's ASLCW conference at BU.

For more information, please contact Meg Tyler at 617-358-4199.