Feb
16
Award-winning memoirist Bernard Cooper speaks at Arnold
February 16, 2015 | Leave a Comment
Memoirist and fiction writer Bernard Cooper will read excerpts from his most recent book, “My Avant-Garde Education,” which explores the questions raised not just by life, but also by the pursuit of art. Is it possible for creativity to redeem us? Can we declare ourselves in some essential sense not only in what we do, but also in what we make? Cooper grapples with these inquiries in his latest work.
- Monday, February 16
- 5 p.m.
- Arnold Hall Auditorium
Cooper has written two collections of memoirs, “Maps to Anywhere” and “Truth Serum,” as well as a novel, “A Year of Rhymes,” a collection of short stories, “Guess Again,” and a memoir, “The Bill From My Father.” His work has appeared in Granta, Story, Ploughshares, Harper’s, The Paris Review and The New York Times Magazine. His work has been included in five volumes of “The Best American Essays,” and in anthologies such as “The Oxford Book of Literature on Aging” and the Library of America’s “Writing Los Angeles.”
Cooper has won numerous awards and prizes. He has taught at Antioch University Los Angeles, for the Master of Professional Writing Program at USC and at the UCLA Writer’s Program. He has been a core faculty member in the M.F.A. Writing Program at Bennington College. In 2014, he was appointed Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Iowa.
A Q-and-A session and book signing will follow the event.
For more information, email Aldine Armstead.
This event is free and open to the public.