Falco is expected to put on quite a show
By Jennifer Palmberg
The Collegian
Known mostly for his riveting
short stories and reading sessions, novelist and Virginia Tech professor
Edward Falco’s public reading on Mon., Sept. 26 is expected to be
an exciting kick off to this year’s visiting writers series.
“He is interesting on a couple different levels,” Jefferson
Beavers, president of the San Jaoquin Literary Association, said. “He’s
a well respected and established short story writer as well as a poet
and a playwright, but he’s branching out to a more mainstream audience
with his first novel “Wolf Point.”
The free event is a collaboration of the SJLA, a Fresno State undergraduate
and graduate student group and the Master of Fine Arts program in creative
writing. The series was designed to bring popular writers and poets to
reenforce and promote the importance of reading and writing according
to English Department student assistant Bruce Kincaid.
“He is a writer known for his short stories that MFA students read,”
Kincaid , a MFA member, said. “Falco is recognized as a leader in
contemporary short stories, but I believe he is currently working on a
novel.”
Falco’s stories are high in drama and have characters t most people
can easily relate to. Novelist and creative writing professor at Fresno
State Steve Yarbrough earlier said Falco’s prose, “is like
a piece of clear glass that allows us to witness his characters’
lives.”
Falco has also worked as a playwright creating “Home Delivery,”
which won the Hampden-Sydney Playwrighting Award in 1992.
He worked with artists and actors from around the world on a project designed
to explore the healing power of drama. After, he produced “The Cretans,”
“Welcome to Castle in the Air” and “Possum Dreams.”
“Falco has released three new books in 2005 including: “Wolf
Point,” “Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha”
and a collection of short fictional stories titled “In the Park
of Culture.”
He has been awarded the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Short Fiction from
the Saint Andrews Review, a Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’
Conference and two Individual Artists Fellowships from the Virginia Commission
for the Arts.
Falco will present his public reading in the Conley Lecture Hall in the
Conley Art Building at 7:30 p.m. For more information contact the English
Department at 278-2553.
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