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The Caxton Club Presents: A Reading with JoAnna Novak

September 22 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Old Main 100, Alumni Room

Free

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JoAnna Novak will read from her highly acclaimed new memoir, Contradiction Days: an Artist on the Verge of Motherhood!

We'll have light refreshments and the reading will be followed by a Q&A. JoAnna Novak is a Knox College graduate of the Department of English. Come and meet her and bring your questions! She will be delighted to talk with students and give you tips about writing and the writing life. 

JoAnna Novak's memoir Contradiction Days was published by Catapult in July 2023. Her fourth book of poetry, DOMESTIREXIA, is forthcoming from Soft Skull Press in 2024. Novak’s short story collection Meaningful Work won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest and was published by FC2. She is the author of the novel I Must Have You and three books of poetry: New Life; Abeyance, North America; and Noirmania. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and other publications. Her essay “My $1000 Anxiety Attack” was anthologized in About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of The New York Times. She is a co-founder of the literary journal and chapbook publisher, Tammy.

The Caxton Club reading and lecture series is a student-led organization advised and sponsored by the Department of English at Knox College.