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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

First Literary Festival Event This Thursday

This year's Literary Festival begins with a reading from Salvatore Scibona on Thursday, Jan. 31, at 7 pm in the Radnor-St. David's Room (Connelly Center).

Salvatore Scibona’s first book, The End, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and winner of the Young Lions Fiction Award from the New York Public Library. In 2010, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and was included in the New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” list of writers to watch. Scibona’s short fiction has won a Pushcart Prize and an O. Henry Award. His work has appeared in The Pushcart Book of Short Stories: The Best Stories from a Quarter-Century of the Pushcart Prize, Best New American Voices, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and more. A graduate of St. John’s College in Santa Fe and of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Scibona administers the writing fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.