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NEA Literary Fellow To Perform at Lunch Hour Series

Daniel Asa Rose Known for Dark Comedy

Written By Miranda McKee '11, PR Intern

Contact - cleogrande@utica.edu

Utica, NY (09/08/2010) - An NEA Literary Fellow (2006) will perform in this fall’s second installment of the Professor Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series on Wednesday (Sept. 15) in Macfarlane Auditorium, DePerno Hall, Utica College, at 12:30 p.m. Daniel Asa Rose, award-winning author and editor of the international literary magazine “The Reading Room,” will read excerpts from and discuss his latest book, a dark comedy about medical tourism, Larry's Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China With my Black-Sheep Cousin and his Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant - and Save His Life.
 
Rose was born in New York City and graduated from Brown University. He won an O. Henry Prize and two Pen Fiction Awards for his first story collection, Small Family With Rooster. His first novel, Flipping For It, a black comedy about divorce from the man's point of view, was a New York Times New and Noteworthy Paperback. In 2002, after siring four boys, he published Hiding Places: A Father and his Sons Retrace Their Family's Escape From the Holocaust, a saga that intermingles a taut current-day search for the hiding places that saved his family in World War II with memories of the author's own hiding places growing up in WASP 1950s Connecticut. This book earned starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Kirkus, as well as the New England Booksellers Discovery Award, a coveted place on the BookSense 76 List, and inclusion in "Best Jewish Writing 2003." He has served as a book reviewer for The New York Observer and New York Magazine, an arts and culture editor of the Forward newspaper, a travel columnist for Esquire magazine, a humor writer for GQ, an essayist for The New York Times Magazine, and a food critic “for the past 20 pounds.”

The Jackson Lunch Hour Series, instituted at Utica College in 1979, presents a series of musical and literary programs each semester. All performances are free of charge and are open to students, faculty, staff, and the public. Sponsored by the Utica College Social Cultural Committee, programs begin at 12:30 p.m. and are held in the Library Concourse (musical performances) or in Macfarlane Auditorium, Deperno Hall (literary readings).

Literary programs are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.

For more information about the Professor Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series, visit www.utica.edu/jackson or call (315) 792-3028.

About Utica College – Utica College, founded in 1946, is a comprehensive private institution offering bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. The College, located in upstate central New York, approximately 90 miles west of Albany and 50 miles east of Syracuse, currently enrolls more than 3,500 students in 37 undergraduate majors, 27 minors, 21 master’s and two doctoral degree programs.
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