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Sources: Elizabeth Dodd, 785-532-0384, edodd@k-state.edu;
and Karin Westman, 785-532-2190, westmank@k-state.edu
News release prepared by: Katie Mayes, 785-532-6415, kmayes@k-state.edu
Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009
K-STATE'S VISITING WRITERS SERIES TO FEATURE AUTHOR ROBERT 1xbet online sports betting NOV. 19
MANHATTAN -- Author Robert 1xbet online sports betting will read from his Kansas-based works as part of Kansas State University's Visiting Writers Series at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, in Hale Library's Hemisphere Room.
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&1xbet online sports betting ;While the great trip is along the east-west roads of Kansas rather than south along the Mississippi, and there's no raft and plenty of cattle, the mixture of hilarity and seriousness is quite similar,&1xbet online sports betting ; said Elizabeth Dodd, professor of English and director of K-State's creative writing program. &1xbet online sports betting ;Day has a lively, engaging voice on the page and I'm sure readers -- whether Kansans by birth or not -- will enjoy an afternoon hearing him read from his work.&1xbet online sports betting ;
Day's &1xbet online sports betting ;The Last Cattle Drive&1xbet online sports betting ; was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and has been reprinted in a 30th anniversary edition. Day also has published several novellas and a collection of short stories, &1xbet online sports betting ;Speaking French in Kansas,&1xbet online sports betting ; in addition to a number of poems and essays.
A reception and book signing will follow the reading from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Strecker-Nelson Gallery, 406 1/2 Poyntz Ave., downtown Manhattan.
1xbet online sports betting has a bachelor's and a master's from the University of Kansas. He presently teaches English at Washington College in Chestertown, Md.
Additional information on the series is available at: http://www.k-state.edu/english/visit.html
