The Fall 2009 portion of the annual Jack Ridl Visting Writers Series wrapped up on Thursday with a reading by novelist Susan Choi. In addition to having authored the Pulitzer Prize finalist novel American Woman, Choi has written two other full length novels, The Foreign Student and Person of Interest. She has also been published in Vogue, O, and The New York Times.
Interested in reading some of Choi’s work? Van Wylen has both Person of Interest and American Woman in their collection. You can read several reviews of her novel The Foreign Student in Literature Criticism Online. Additional criticisms of other writings of hers are also available through the database OneFile PowerSearch.
Keep watching the library’s blog for more information about the remaining writers in the 2009-2010 series, Melissa Delbridge, Terrance Hayes, and George Saunders.
— BJS