MacArthur Fellow Jay Cantor to Give Reading at Bard College on Monday, April 20

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—On Monday, April 20, Jay Cantor, winner of a 1989 MacArthur Fellowship, will read from his new book, Forgiving the Angel: Four Stories for Franz Kafka, at Bard College. In its review of Forgiving the Angel, the New York Times writes, “Forgiving the Angel links disparate time, places and characters in an ingeniously unified and admirably purposeful fiction. [In its] formal circularity, ethical ambiguity and scrupulous undecidability, Cantor’s fiction is a worthy homage to Kafka. It is also an original work that pulls our mind through the kind of biographical and historical contraption that Kafka would probably never have put together, would probably not, as a Jew in Czechoslovakia, have survived to put together.” Cantor will be introduced by novelist and Bard literature professor Bradford Morrow. The reading, presented as part of Morrow’s Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series, takes place at 2:30 p.m. in Weis Cinema at the Bertelsmann Campus Center. It is free and open to the public; no reservations are required.

Jay Cantor is the author of three novels, The Death of Che Guevara, Krazy Kat, and Great Neck; and two books of essays, The Space Between and On Giving Birth to One’s Own Mother. He teaches at Tufts University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife and daughter.

For more information about this event or to be placed on the Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series e-mail list, contact conjunctions@bard.edu or call 845-758-7054.

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This event was last updated on 04-01-2015

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