NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Charles Baxter, whose fiction has been described as “a valentine to the Midwest” by The Atlantic, will read from his work on Jan. 30 at Vanderbilt University.
Baxter has published eight books of fiction including The Feast of Love. He is the Edelstein-Keller Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota.
Baxter’s books including Believers, Harmony of the World and Through the Safety Net have been praised for revealing the extraordinary in the world of ordinary people.
“His Midwest is at once beautiful and disturbed, layered with longing and trouble, deep attachments, uneasy conformity, and unexpected gifts,” said Nancy Reisman, assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt.
Baxter has received the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and fellowships from the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Feast of Love was a 2000 National Book Award finalist.
Baxter will read at 7 p.m. Jan. 30 in Room 101 of Buttrick Hall on the Vanderbilt campus. A reception and book signing will follow.
The event is free and open to the public.
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