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Date
Sponsors
UA Prose Series
Reading Series
Location
Modern Languages Auditorium
Amy Hempel
Amy Hempel reads from her first two short story collections, Reasons to Live (1985) and At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom (1990). She opens by reading Jack Gilbert's poem "Hunger," which she describes as being taped above her typewriter for "years and years."
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"Hunger"
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Description
Read by Amy Hempel.
Citation
Gilbert, Jack. Monolithos. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
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"The Day I Had Everything"
Reader
Citation
Hempel, Amy. At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom. New York: Knopf, 1990.
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Track Title
"The Man in Bogota"
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Citation
Hempel, Amy. Reasons to Live. New York: Knopf, 1985.
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"The Most Girl Part of You"
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Citation
Hempel, Amy. At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom. New York: Knopf, 1990.