FUTURE OF FICTION PANEL DISCUSSION AT THE
SANTA MONICA PUBLIC LIBRARY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date:       May 1, 2006
Contact:  Julie MacDonald, Public Services Librarian II, (310) 434-2644

The future of a fiction is the topic of discussion in a special Citywide Reads program at the Santa Monica Public Library on Thursday, May 4, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Martin Luther King Jr. Auditorium, 601 Santa Monica Boulevard.

The graphic elements and stylistic choices of Jonathan Safran Foer in the 2006 Santa Monica Citywide Reads featured novel, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, illustrate just one possible direction for contemporary fiction.  David Kipen, the National Endowment for the Arts Director of Literature and former San Francisco Chronicle book critic, will moderate a panel of National Endowment for the Arts Prose Fiction grant winners for 2005.  Scheduled to appear are Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, author of Madeleine Is Sleeping, Bret Anthony Johnston, author of Corpus Christie:  Stories, William Luvaas, author of Going Under, and Tom McNeal, author of Goodnight, Nebraska.

For more information about this free public program, contact the Santa Monica Public Library at (310) 458-8600; or visit the Library’s website at www.smpl.org.

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