Lannan Readings & Conversations
Rikki Ducornet
with Joanna ScottWednesday March 9 2005
Reading, March 9, 2005
Conversation, March 9, 2005
Downloadable Podcast of this event is now available.
Rikki Ducornet, a cosmopolitan and intellectual artist, has lived in North Africa, South America, France, and Canada. Of her most recent book, Gazelle, the Washington Post writes, "[It] is a sensuous book. A mix of smells pervades its pages, from orange blossoms, perfumes, mint, almonds, limes, roses, jasmine, and long-simmered delicacies to animal dung, vinegar, urine, and long-buried mummies. Great stand-alone sentences are enough to make one's mouth water."
Joanna Scott, a professor of English at the University of Rochester, is the author of six novels including Tourmaline, The Manikin, and a short story collection, Various Antidotes. She has received a MacArthur Fellowship and a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction.
The Chicago Tribune notes, "Scott is a thoughtful storyteller, armed with a technical expertise…[she] has an intuitive understanding of the complicated dance between literature and life."
