Next Tuesday, March 10th, at 7:00pm, Patrick Somerville returns to Madison to read at 6191 Helen C. White. Pat is currently on-tour for his second book, (The Cradle, a novel, to be release on March 9th) which, if it is anything like his collection of stories, will be funny and highly original. Come out and support the home boy!
Patrick Somerville grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, went to college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and later earned his MFA from Cornell University. He has taught creative writing and English at Cornell, Auburn State Correctional Facility, and The Graham School in Chicago. His first book of stories, Trouble, was published in September of 2006 (Vintage) and named 2006's Best Book by a Chicago Author by Time Out Chicago. His writing has appeared in One Story, Epoch, GQ, Esquire, and Best American Nonrequired Reading, and his first novel, The Cradle, is out from Little, Brown. This spring he will also be serving as the Simon Blattner Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Northwestern University.
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