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Bret Anthony Johnston reading, Live from Prairie Lights, November 1, 2012
Johnston, Bret Anthony, 1971-
Prairie Lights (Iowa City, Iowa) WSUI (Radio station : Iowa City, Iowa)
2012-11-01
Prairie Lights Bookstore
Bret Anthony Johnston reads from his work. Bret is the author of the internationally acclaimed Corpus Christi: Stories and the editor of Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer. Named a Best Book of the Year by The Independent of London and The Irish Times, Corpus Christi: Stories received The Southern Review’s Annual Short Fiction Award, the Texas Institute of Letters’ Debut Fiction Award, the Christopher Isherwood Prize, and the James Michener Fellowship. His work appears in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and Tin House, and in The Best American Short Stories and Best American Sports Writing. He is a graduate of Miami University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. He has written essays for Slate.com and is a regular contributor to NPR’s All Things Considered. In 2006, the National Book Foundation honored him with a new National Book Award for writers under 35. He is currently Director of Creative Writing at Harvard. Bret also wrote the Documentary Film about skateboarder Danny Way, Waiting for Lightning.
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