The Madison Review staff, whose annual fall party features a reading by writers Dean Bakopoulos and Ben Percy, write:
The Madison Review and Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing 2009-10 Fellows will host a reading by authors Dean Bakopoulos and Benjamin Percy on Friday, Dec. 11, as part of the Madison Review's release of the Fall 2009 issue. Come listen to two of the Midwest's great fiction writers, then come across the street to the Orpheum Lobby Restaurant for a a few drinks and the Madison Review Fall Release Party! (Be sure to check out the interview with Benjamin Percy in the new issue!)
The reading will be held at 7p.m. in the Wisconsin Studio, on the third floor of the Overture Center for the Arts. The party will begin at the Orpheum at 8. Tickets are $5 at the door, whether you attend one even or both--a ticket to the reading gets you free entry to the party!
Books will be a available for purchase from A Room of One's Own Bookstore. The authors will sign books at the Orpheum after the reading.
Dean Bakopoulos grew up outside Detroit, lived in Madison and Mineral Point, WI for many years, and earned his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. HIs novel "Please Don't Come Back From the Moon" was a New York Time notable book and is being developed into a television series. His next novel, "My American Unhappiness," is due out late 2010. Dean's fiction, nonfiction and reviews have appeared in Zoetrope All-Story, The Progressive, The New York Times Book Review, The Believer, and Real Simple. He is currently teaching in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University.
Benjamin Percy grew up in Central Oregon. He is the author of a forthcoming novel, The Wilding, and two collections of short stories: Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and the Chicago Tribune. He currently teaches creative writing at the MFA Program in Creative Writing and the Environment at Iowa State.
The Madison Review is an all-undergraduate run literary journal published by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Founded in the 1970s, the Review is published twice each year and features poetry, fiction and art from talented writers and artists across the country.
**Special Thanks to the Wisconsin Humanities Council for publicity support**
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