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I'm happy you could brave the
storm to come out tonight.

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I hope you can stay and have
some lemonade and cookies,

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and meet Terry McMillan
after the reading.

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Terry has just joined the
Creative Writing Faculty here

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at the university this year.

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She's a real shot in
the arm for all of us.

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It's so good to have her here.

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Her first novel,
Mama, was published

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by Houghton Mifflin in 1987.

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And we have some
copies on sale tonight,

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if you'd like to buy one.

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It received a Before Columbus
Foundation American Book Award.

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Her stories, and
essays, and excerpts

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from her work-in-progress have
appeared in such magazines

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as Other Voices,
Callaloo, Yardbird Reader,

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and Esquire magazine.

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She's written essays and
reviews for The New York

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Times, The Philadelphia
Inquirer, and others.

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Her second novel,
Disappearing Acts,

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will be published by
Viking Penguin next year.

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And also for Viking
Penguin, she is

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editing an anthology
of contemporary fiction

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by Black authors.

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Her honors include a fellowship
from the National Endowment

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for the Arts, and
fellowships at Yaddo,

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and the MacDowell Colony.

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It's a real pleasure to
introduce to you tonight,

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Terry McMillan.

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[APPLAUSE]

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