PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University’s English department will present poet, novelist and essayist David Huddle on March 31 as part of its 2003-04 Visiting Writer Series.
The 7:30 p.m. reading will be in Kimbrough Concert Hall’s auditorium and is free and open to the public.
Huddle is the author of a number of books, including “Stopping By Home,” “The Nature of Yearning” and “The Writing Habit.” His 1999 novel, “The Story of a Million Years,” was selected a distinguished first novel by Esquire magazine and a best book of the year by the Los Angeles Times Book Review.
His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in Esquire, Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Playboy, Ploughshares, Best American Short Stories and others. Houghton Mifflin published Huddle’s second novel, “La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl,” (2002) and Louisiana State University Press will publish his new book of poems “Grayscale.”
In conjunction with the reading, Huddle will teach a 1-credit English class, “Special Topics Workshop in Creative Writing Pedagogy,” March 29-30 and April 1-2. Each session of the English 358-level class will be from 6-9 p.m. in Avery Hall, Room 115. Students can stop by the English department office in Avery Hall, Room 202, to sign up.
A Virginia native, Huddle served in the Army as an enlisted man in Vietnam. He has held two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as those from Yado, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
The event is co-sponsored by CO-TEACH, the WSU Museum of Art and VPLAC, as part of its spring 2004 thematic series “Adding an E to ArtE!” For more information, contact Paula Coomer at (509) 335-6846.
