The Ordinary Evening Reading Series is excited to present non-fiction writers Lisa Sanders and Jonathan Spence on Tuesday October 14 to brighten your Autumn evening with tales of medical deeds (and misdeeds) and life in 17th century China.
Lisa Sanders, M.D. is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale University School of Medicine and a clinician educator in Yale’s Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency program. She writes the popular "Diagnosis" column which appears monthly in The New York Times Magazine. The popular Fox television show “House M.D.” was inspired by her column and she now serves as a technical advisor for the show. At Yale, Dr. Sanders’ research and practice focus on the treatment of overweight and obese patients and she is the author of The Perfect Fit Diet: How to Lose Weight, Keep it Off And Still Eat the Foods You Love.
Before entering medical school, Lisa was an Emmy Award-winning producer at CBS News, where she covered medicine and health. She is currently writing a book, titled Diagnosis, in which she looks at how doctors make, and sometimes don’t make, the right diagnosis.
Professor Jonathan Spence teaches at Yale in the field of Chinese history from around 1600 to the present, and on Western images of China since the middle ages. His most recent book is Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man (2007).
A past president of the American Historical Association, Jonathan is recognized as one of the foremost scholars of Chinese civilization from the 16th century to the present, and has written extensively on the role of history in shaping modern China. His critically acclaimed book The Search for Modern China has become one of the standard texts on the last several hundred years of Chinese history. He has written and published extensively, including a biography of Mao Zedong and Treason by the Book, which explores an intriguing episode of 18th-century history.
A native of England, Spence holds a bachelor's degree from Cambridge University and master's and doctoral degrees from Yale. His many honors include the Los Angeles Times History Prize in 1982, fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and membership to the Council of Scholars at the Library of Congress. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1988. In June 2001, he was made a Companion of the Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, an honor given by the Queen of England for outstanding achievement.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Saturday, August 16, 2008
September 16: Alice Mattison and Cameron Gearen
The Ordinary Evening Reading Series is proud to inaugurate its Fall 2008 program with readings by novelist (and Ordinary Evening co-curator) Alice Mattison and poet Cameron Gearen.
Alice Mattison—one of the four organizers of the Ordinary Evening series—will read from her new novel, Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn, which will be published by HarperCollins on September 16, the day of her reading. An excerpt appeared recently in The New Yorker. Alice’s most recent book, In Case We’re Separated: Connected Stories, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2005 and won the Connecticut Book Award for fiction. She is the author of four other novels and three other collections of stories. She lives in New Haven and teaches in the MFA program at Bennington College in Vermont, and in the Fine Arts Work Center summer workshops in Provincetown, MA.
Cameron Gearen was born in New Haven and grew up in Oak Park, Illinois. She has published a chapbook of poetry entitled Night, Relative to Day that was selected by Robert Pinsky (2004). Her poetry has appeared in Fence, The Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, Poetry Northwest, The Bellingham Review, River Styx, Quarterly West, Another Chicago Magazine, Northwest Review and elsewhere. She won the Grolier Prize in 1994, the W.B. Yeats Society Poetry Contest in 2001 and the 2005 Lynda Hull Prize from Crazyhorse. She currently teaches in the English Department at Hamden Hall Country Day School.
Alice Mattison—one of the four organizers of the Ordinary Evening series—will read from her new novel, Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn, which will be published by HarperCollins on September 16, the day of her reading. An excerpt appeared recently in The New Yorker. Alice’s most recent book, In Case We’re Separated: Connected Stories, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2005 and won the Connecticut Book Award for fiction. She is the author of four other novels and three other collections of stories. She lives in New Haven and teaches in the MFA program at Bennington College in Vermont, and in the Fine Arts Work Center summer workshops in Provincetown, MA.
Cameron Gearen was born in New Haven and grew up in Oak Park, Illinois. She has published a chapbook of poetry entitled Night, Relative to Day that was selected by Robert Pinsky (2004). Her poetry has appeared in Fence, The Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, Poetry Northwest, The Bellingham Review, River Styx, Quarterly West, Another Chicago Magazine, Northwest Review and elsewhere. She won the Grolier Prize in 1994, the W.B. Yeats Society Poetry Contest in 2001 and the 2005 Lynda Hull Prize from Crazyhorse. She currently teaches in the English Department at Hamden Hall Country Day School.
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