Join us for a very special AWP off-site event with two of our Drue Heinz Literature Prize winners, Brad Felver and Leslie Pietrzyk!
About Brad Felver’s THE DOGS OF DETROIT (2018 winner):
The 14 stories of The Dogs of Detroit each focus on grief and its many strange permutations. This grief alternately devolves into violence, silence, solitude, and utter isolation. In some cases, grief drives the stories as a strong, reactionary force, and yet in other stories, that grief evolves quietly over long stretches of time. Many of the stories also use grief as a prism to explore the beguiling bonds within families. The stories span a variety of geographies, both urban and rural, often considering collisions between the two.
About Leslie Pietrzyk’s THIS ANGEL ON MY CHEST (2015 winner):
This Angel on my Chest is a collection of unconventionally linked stories, each about a different young woman whose husband dies suddenly and unexpectedly. Ranging from traditional stories to lists, a quiz, a YouTube link, and even a lecture about creative writing, the stories grasp to put into words the ways in which we all cope with unspeakable loss.
The University of Pittsburgh Press will be selling copies of the authors award-winning books. Special thanks to Mother Foucault’s Bookshop for hosting the reading! Free and open to the public.
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