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The Written Arts Program Faculty Reading Series: Mary Caponegro, “Doubt Uncertainty Possibility Desire”
Credit: Giorgia Fanelli

Center for Civic Engagement Presents

The Written Arts Program Faculty Reading Series: Mary Caponegro, “Doubt Uncertainty Possibility Desire”

Award-winning author Mary Caponegro will discuss Leonardo Da Vinci, the AIDS pandemic in New York, and how both influenced her story “Doubt, Uncertainty, Possibility Desire.”
Friday, May 15, 2020
Online via Zoom
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Presented by the Bard College Written Arts Program in conjunction with the Center for Civic Engagement and the Lifetime Learning Institute

Download “Doubt Uncertainty Possibility Desire”

The winner of many awards, including the Rome Prize and Charles Flint Kellogg Award, Caponegro is Bard’s Richard B. Fisher Family Professor of Writing and Literature. Author Jonathan Safran Foer has called Caponegro “one of the most imaginative, daring, serious, and playful writers alive.” She is the author of the short story collections The Star Café, Five Doubts, The Complexities of Intimacy, and All Fall Down, as well as selected works in translation. Professor Caponegro is a contributor to the Review of Contemporary Fiction, Tin House, Black Warrior Review, Salt Hill, Epoch, Conjunctions, Fairy Tale Review, Sulfur, Gargoyle, and Iowa Review, and a contributing editor for Conjunctions. She has received the Rome Prize Fellowship in Literature, General Electric Foundation Award for Younger Writers, Bruno Arcudi Award, and Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from Bard College.

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Time: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

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