Brian Doyle
The Lit Fest 2015 welcomes essayist Brian Doyle. The fest is March 25-27.
All readings and lectures are free and open to the public. The five visiting writers will be present throughout the festival, lecturing and reading from their work, and books by the authors will be available for purchase after each program, and at Little Professor Book Center. See the schedule for Ohio University Spring Literary Festival, also featuring essayist Dorothy Allison, novelist Charles Johnson, and poets Marie Howe and Robert Pinsky.
Thursday, March 26, Baker Center Ballroom
- 7:30 p.m. Brian Doyle Reading
Friday, March 27, Alden Library, 4th Floor
- 11 a.m. Brian Doyle Lecture
About Brian Doyle
Doyle edits Portland Magazine at the University of Portland—the best university magazine in America, according to Newsweek, and “the best spiritual magazine in the country,” according to author Annie Dillard.
Doyle is the author of 13 books. Among these are five collections of essays, two nonfiction books (The Grail, about a year in an Oregon vineyard, and The Wet Engine, about the “muddles & musics of the heart”), two collections of “proems,” the story collection Bin Laden’s Bald Spot, and the novels Mink River, Cat’s Foot and The Plover.
Doyle’s books have four times been finalists for the Oregon Book Award, and his essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Orion, The American Scholar, and in newspapers and magazines around the world. His essays have also been reprinted in the annual Best American Essays, Best American Science & Nature Writing, and Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. Among various honors for his work is a Catholic Book Award, two Pushcart Prizes, and a 2008 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
About Spring Literary Festival
Since 1986, The Spring Literary Festival has featured some of the world’s finest, most distinguished writers of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. The three-day spring festival is held on the Ohio University campus in Athens, OH. It is sponsored by the Creative Writing program in the Department of English and is generously funded by the College of Arts & Sciences.
For more information, contact David Wanczyk, Spring Literary Festival Coordinator, at davidwanczyk@gmail.com.
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