Anne Sanow and Todd Hearon Triple Time and Strange Land
09/30/2010 7:00 pm
"Gorgeous and subtle, Anne Sanow's Triple Time
are stories that stay with you. Her characters are stripped down to the
essential grit, surviving through patience and the ability to gauge
complex layers of tradition and expectation. Progress is the mantra, but
this is progress shaped by the strictures of tradition...This is simply
great storytelling." Dorothy Alison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina
"Todd
Hearon’s engaging, inventive language penetrates to what he calls ‘the
dark of your memory,’ a region where dreamlife and language overlap,
where occulted feelings the chords and discourds of speech...This is a
first book of rare mastery." Robert Pinsky, former U.S. Poet Laureate
Anne Sanow’s work has been published in Dossier, Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, Malahat Review,
and elsewhere. A five-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize and the
winner of the 2009 Nelson Algren Award for the short story from the Chicago Tribune,
she has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in
Provincetown, the MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the
Arts. Triple Time in the winner of the 2009 Drue Heinz Literature Prize
and the 2010 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award for fiction.
Todd
Hearon is a poet, playwright, and fiction writer. His poems,
translations, and reviews have appeared in The Southern Review, The New
Republic, Harvard Review, Partisan Review, AGNI, Literary Imagination,
Ploughshares, Poetry London, and Slate. He has received numerous awards,
including a 2007 PEN New England “Discovery” Award; the 2007 Friends of
Literature Prize from Poetry magazine; a Dobie Paisano writing
fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin; and a Paul Green
Playwrights Prize.
