Literary Reading by Ron Carlson

Ron Carlson is the author of eight books of fiction, most recently his selected stories A Kind of Flying, the novel The Speed of Light, and the story collection At the Jim Bridger. His short stories have appeared in Esquire, Harper's, The New Yorker, Gentlemen's Quarterly, and other magazines, as well as The Best American Short Stories, The O'Henry Prize Series, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction and dozens of other anthologies. He is Foundation Professor and Regents' Professor of English at Arizona State University. Among his awards are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, the Cohen Prize at Ploughshares, and a National Society of Arts and Letters Literature Award. He teaches creative writing at the graduate and undergraduate level, with an emphasis on craft and the process of writing to find the story.

This event is co-sponsored by Stanford's Creative Writing Department.