Experimental fiction writer Mary Caponegro will read from her new fiction collection, "All Fall Down," at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21, in Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St. in downtown Iowa City. The event will be streamed live and archived on the Writing University Web site: http://writinguniversity.uiowa.edu/.
A faculty member at Bard College, Caponegro ( "The Complexities of Intimacy" and "Five Doubts" ) uses linguistic complexity and surrealism in her studies of relationships under duress. In two novellas and four shorter tales of love and healing gone awry, she portrays caregivers and lovers, muses and skydivers, mothers and minors -- all headed toward "ninety mile-an-hour psychic crashes euphemistically referred to as epiphanies."
Caponegro's stories have been anthologized in "The Anchor Book of New American Fiction," "The Italian American Reader" and "Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana." She has been honored with a Lannan Residency Fellowship, the Bruno Arcudi Award, the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from Bard College, a Rome Prize Fellowship in Literature and the General Electric Foundation Award for Younger Writers.
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