Amy Hempel - April 22, 1992

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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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Introduction
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by Alison Hawthorne Deming

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"Hunger"
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Read by Amy Hempel.

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Gilbert, Jack. Monolithos. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.

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"The Day I Had Everything"
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Hempel, Amy. At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom. New York: Knopf, 1990.

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"The Man in Bogota"
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Hempel, Amy. Reasons to Live. New York: Knopf, 1985.

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"The Most Girl Part of You"
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Hempel, Amy. At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom. New York: Knopf, 1990.

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