Cincinnati Short Story Festival: Schedule of Events

Tuesday, April 17, 2001
8 p.m. Fiction Reading Featuring John Updike
Location: Zimmer Auditorium

Wednesday, April 18, 2001
10:30 a.m., Discussion on The Short Fiction of John Updike, With a Response by John Updike
Featuring John Updike, William H. Pritchard and Donald Greiner
Topics: W. H. Pritchard, "'The Music School': Updike Experimenting"
Donald Greiner, "John Updike, Don DeLillo and the Baseball Story as Myth"
Moderator: Jim Schiff
Location: Elliston Room, Room 646 Langsam Library

2 p.m., An Interview With John Updike
Featuring John Updike and Jim Schiff
Location: Werner Recital Hall, UC College-Conservatory of Music (CCM)

Thursday, April 19, 2001
Noon, Presentation on Building a Short Story Featuring Erin McGraw, UC associate professor of English and fiction writer
Location: Mercantile Library, downtown

Tuesday, April 24, 2001
2 p.m., Fiction Reading
Featuring ZZ Packer
Location: Elliston Room, Room 646, sixth floor, UC's Langsam Library

8 p.m., Discussion on Genre Matters: Short Fiction in the Nineties
Featuring Charles May and Susan Lohafer
Topics: Charles May, "Trends and Traditions in the Turn-of-the-Century Short Story"
Susan Lohafer, "Saving the Short Story from Literary Nonfiction"
Location: Elliston Room, Room 646, sixth floor, UC's Langsam Library

Wednesday, April 25, 2001
Noon, Fiction Reading
Featuring ZZ Packer
Location: Mercantile Library, downtown Cincinnati

8 p.m., Fiction Reading
Featuring Lorrie Moore
Location: Room127, UC's McMicken Hall

Thursday, April 26, 2001
10 a.m., A Conversation about the Short Story
With Lorrie Moore, Richard Burgin and Erin Mcgraw
Location: Elliston Room, Room 646, sixth floor, UC's Langsam Library

1 p.m., Remarks on the Short Story
Featuring Lorrie Moore
Location: Elliston Room, Room 646, sixth floor, UC's Langsam Library

8 p.m., Fiction Reading
With Richard Burgin
Location: Elliston Room, Room 646, sixth floor, UC's Langsam Library

FOR INFORMATION, THE PUBLIC MAY CALL (513) 556-5924.