February
21, 2003 Author
David Lynn to Speak and Meet with Student Editors
On Monday, February
24, the English department will present a reading by David Lynn,
professor of English at Kenyon College and editor of the Kenyon
Review. Lynn will read from his novel Wrestling with Gabriel
(Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002) at 7 pm at the Odyssey
Bookshop. He will also meet with the student editors of Verbosity
and Nostos, Mount Holyoke's two literary magazines.
Lynn's visit is part of the English department's series
of readings by contemporary writers.
"David Lynn is an inspiring example of the ways literary
careers can intersect in one person,” says Mary Jo Salter,
Emily Dickinson Senior Lecturer in the Humanities. "As a
teacher of both literature and creative writing, a fiction writer,
and the editor of one of the country's best literary magazines,
he demonstrates to students—especially nervous seniors—that
literary people need not choose only one path.”
Wrestling with Gabriel, Lynn's first novel, follows
the journey of Baltimore reporter Jason Currant as he investigates
rape charges against his former brother-in-law in a small Iowa
town.
"It starts out with a bang, with two vividly sketched, but
very different, versions of a story,” says Salter, referring
to the book's two prologues, "A Story” and "Another
Story,” one for each side of the case. "What's
the truth? The reader is compelled to read on and find out.”
Prize-winning author Amitav Ghosh says that the novel "signals
the arrival of a major talent.” He writes, "David
Lynn has achieved the near-impossible. He has written a taut,
absorbing page-turner that tackles the important themes of politics
and social responsibility.”
Lynn is also the author of the short-story collection Fortune
Telling (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998) and the
critical study The Hero's Tale: Narrators in the Early
Modern Novel (St. Martins, New York, and Macmillan, London:
1989). At Kenyon, he teaches workshops in fiction writing as well
as literature courses. He has been editor of the Kenyon Review
since 1994.
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