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"The Odyssey," 7:30 p.m. Tu
day, the Koger Center. Tickets av
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Office and all Capital Ticket 0
lets. To charge, call 251-2222.
Writers
staff writer AUA AKKAM
A diverse collection of renowned contemporary
authors in the genres of fiction,
poetry and nonfiction, including
Cold Mountain author Charles Frazier,
will unite for a three-day Writers Festival,
beginning Oct. 1.
The festival is "unique both in quality
and quantity," said Robert Newman,
chairman of the English department,
emphasizing'the variety of perspectives
that'll be presented by the event's featured
writers. Those writers include
Frazier, USC writer-in-residence Robert
Coover, Reynolds Price, W. S. Merwin,
Barbara Ehrenreich and Marilyn
Nelson.
"We want to celebrate the remarkable
accomplishments of writers who
are speaking to the soul of the country
and who represent the aspirations
and frustrations of contemporary life
with the most powerful words they can
muster," said John MacNicholas, USC's
playwright-in-residence and festival coordinator.
Frazier will launch the festival with
a public reading at 8 p.m. Oct. 1 in
the Koger Center. A question-and-answer
session and book signing will follow.
A Cold Mountain symposium, with
a discussion led by Newman that will
be videotaped for broadcast, will
highlight the second day of events. Featuring
Coover, Price and Merwin, the
Alternate
staff writer PHIUP BURT
A few USC students won't
be breaking anything this fall;
instead, they'll be building up.
This chance comes from the
Alternative Fall Break program,
which will be held Oct 10 to 13.
UbC began the Alternative
Spring Break program three
years ago. The idea for the fall
break has existed at campuses has sine
for four or five years, but this is Jun
the fiist year USC will be doing the Roj
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community service," co-chair future.'
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alternative fall break occurred pjeasan
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trip to Royal Retreat, Va., in
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panel will explore Frazier's novel as a
work of literature.
The symposium will be held from
10:30 a.m. to noon Oct. 2 at Drayton
Hall.
Drayton Hall will also serve as the
site for the remaining activities of the
day: Nelson, Coover and Price will read
from their works at 2 p.m., 4 p.m. and
8 p.m., respectively.
Ehrenreich will give a public reading
at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3 at Drayton Hall,
followed by a reading from Merwin at
9 p.m.
The festival will end with a reception
at 10 p.m. Oct. 3 in the South Caroliniana
Library.
All events are free and open to the
public.
Each of the authors' books will be
on sale Oct. 1 at the Roger Center
and Oct. 2 and 3 at Drayton Hall.
Newman hopes the festival will
strengthen the university's national
profile in academic programs and sponsored
events.
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community and nation our comre
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mitment to creative writing and the
arts," he said.
USC creative writing students in
the MFA program have helped coordinate
the festival, and several students
who have been reading Cold
Mountain in their English classes, will
attend the public reading for further
insight.
Through the public reception and
the question-and-answer sessions
and book signings after each reading,
the students and community will have
the opportunity to interact with the
writers.
Newman thinks that this "dialogue
as well as a series of readings presented"
will be a much more enriching
experience for the public.
The scope and number of writers
the festival has attracted is a rare distinction
for USC, Newman said.
Frazier, who got his Ph.D. in literature
from USC, earned the 1998 National
Book Award for his first novel,
Cold Mountain, which remained on the
New York Times best-seller list for 59
weeks. Recently, a paperback edition
was published, and plans for a movie
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Coover, a visiting professor at USC
this fall, is a leader in hypermedia and
post modernism. Best known for The
Public Burning, his Origin of the
Brunists also earned him the William
Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Price, who won the National Book
Critics Circle Award in 1986 for his novel
Kate Vaiden, is Duke University's
writer-in-residence. He's written more
than 30 books, including Roxanna Slade
and A Whole New Life, a personal account
of his recovery from spinal cancer.
Merwin a 1071 Pnlitvpr Pri?p win.
ner for The Carrier of Ladders, is a leading
Levine poet and recently earned the
prestigious Lilly Poetry Award.
Ehrenreich, an essayist known for
her feminist viewpoints, has received
the National Magazine Award for Excellence
in Reporting, and Fear of '
Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle
Class earned a nomination for the
National Book Critics Award. Her other
works of nonfiction include The Worst
Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes
from a Decade of Greed.
Nelson, who is the author of five
books of poetry and two collections of
children's verse, was a 1991 National
Book Award finalist for The Homeplace
and the 1992 recipient of the Annisfield-Wolf
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trip, students will help the
homeless and go out with them ^
to learn what homelessness and
urban poverty are like.
The trip to Detroit would be
to work with the school
programs.
Participants in the ABC have
said pay a $100 fee, and the rest (
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