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Award-winning writer Bill Roorbach will read from his recent work on Feb. 24 at 4:30 p.m in John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill.

Roorbach is the author of Big Bend, a collection of stories, and The Smallest Color, a novel, as well as several books of nonfiction. Temple Stream, his newest nonfiction book, will be published in July by Dial Press. Roorbach has also written for The Atlantic, Harper's, Playboy, The New York Times Magazine and Granta.

Roorbach is as raw and engaged a writer as you'll ever read... He rivals James Baldwin in his ability to miraculously open up rivers of male sentiment, says Los Angeles Weekly. A resident of Maine, Roorbach is the recent winner of an O. Henry Award, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kaplan Furthermore Fund. He currently holds the Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., where he is a visiting professor.

His reading is co-sponsored by the UVM English Department and the James and Mary Brigham Buckham Scholarship Fund. Information: 656-3056

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