Left to right: Fred D’Aguiar, Ann Lauterbach, Sofia Samatar, Samuel R. Delany and Bradford Morrow
July 7th, writer and professor of literature at Bard College Bradford Morrow, Founding editor of Conjunctions, is hosting an online reading night to celebrate the launch of the fortieth anniversary edition of Conjunctions, Bard College’s acclaimed literary magazine. Morrow is featured on Conjunctions: 76, the fortieth anniversary edition Fred D’Aguiar, Samuel R. Delany, Ann Lauterbach, and Sofia Samatar. The livestream event, presented by Conjunctions and the Elliott Bay Book Company, will take place on Wednesday, July 7th at 8 p.m. For reservations please click here.
ABOUT THE PROBLEM
Conjunctions: 76, Fortieth Anniversary Issue was published by Bard College in Spring 2021 and celebrates its 40th anniversary with new and previously unpublished work by Ben Okri, Karen Russell, Peter Cole, Ann Lauterbach, Lydia Davis, Samuel R. Delany, Akil Kumarasamy, John Ashbery, Joyce Carol Oates, Sofia Samatar, Richard Powers, Shane McCrae, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, William H. Gass, Can Xue, Jessica Campbell, Fred D’Aguiar, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Carole Maso, Julia Alvarez, Genya Turovskaya, Mark Irwin , Jayne Anne Phillips, Sanjena Sathian, Peter Orner, Rosmarie Waldrop, Colin Channer, Isabella Hammad, Lance Olsen, Diane Williams, Laird Hunt, Laynie Browne, Wendy Xu, JoAnna Novak, Megan Kakimoto, Quincy Troupe, Tomaž Šalamun, Julia Elliott and Robert Coover with a foreword by Rick Moody.
ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS
Fred D’AguiarHis books include the novel Children of Paradise, the poetry collection Letters to America, and the upcoming memoir Year of Plagues.
In 2016, Samuel R. Delany was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. His books include the Return to Neveryon series; an autobiography, The Motion of Light in Water; and the paired essays Times Square Red, Times Square Blue.
Anna Lauterbach‘s tenth collection of poems, Spell, was published by Penguin. She is the David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College and has been the co-editor of Conjunctions since 1984.
Sofia Samatar is the author of four books, most recently Monster Portraits. Her fiction has won multiple awards, including the World Fantasy Award. Her memoir, The White Mosque, is published by Catapult Books.
Bradford Morrow is the author of ten fiction books and founding editor of Conjunctions. He has received a Guggenheim Fiction Fellowship, an Oscar for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the PEN / Nora Magid Award for excellence in publishing a literary magazine.
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The Washington Post says, “Conjunctions provides a setting for some of the most exciting and sophisticated writers working right now.”
Edited by Bradford Morrow and published twice a year by Bard College, Conjunctions showcases innovative fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction by emerging voices and contemporary masters. For nearly four decades, Conjunctions has challenged accepted forms and styles, with an equal emphasis on groundbreaking experimentation and rigorous execution. In 2020, Conjunctions received the prestigious Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. The judges stated: “Each issue of Conjunctions is a curatorial invention that continues the modernist project of dense, economic writing, formal innovation and openness to history and the world.” The magazine was named “Top Literary Magazine 2019” by Reedsy and was a finalist for the ASME Award for Fiction 2018, 2019 and 2021 and the CLMP Firecracker Award 2018 for General Excellence. In addition, contributions to current issues were selected for The Best American Short Stories 2021, The Best American Essays (2018, 2019), The Pushcart Prize XLIV: Best of the Small Presses, Best American Experimental Writing 2020, Best Small Fictions 2019, and the best Dark Fantasy & Horror of the year: 2019.
Further information on the current edition can be found at http://www.conjunctions.com/print/archive/conjunctions76. To order a copy, go to annandaleonline.org/conjunctions, call the Conjunctions office at 845-758-7054, email connections@bard.edu, or write to Conjunctions, Bard College, PO Box 5000, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000. Visit the Conjunctions website at connections.com.
[Note to editors: To obtain review copies, please call Mark Primoff at 845-758-7412 or e-mail primoff@bard.edu]
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(6.22.21)
Date of publication: 23/06/2021
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