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Tuesday, October 1, 2002
Contact: Peter Bailley
news@knox.edu
309-341-7715
GALESBURG -- Author Aimee Bender will give a free, public reading at 4 p.m., Friday, Oct. 18, in the Muelder Room, Seymour Library, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois.
Bender, who lives in Los Angeles, is the author of two critically-acclaimed books -- a collection of short stories, "The Girl in the Flammable Skirt," and a novel, "An Invisible Sign of My Own."
A reviewer in The Village Voice wrote that "Bender's stories read like modern fables -- with a healthy sense of twisted humor." The collection of 16 stories, "The Girl in the Flammable Skirt," was selected as a Notable Book of 1998 by The New York Times and a Recommended Book by the Watch Hill Library Journal.
Bender's novel, "An Invisible Sign of My Own," about a mathematics teacher whose tidy universe of numbers is disrupted by a romance with a handsome colleague, was selected by The Los Angeles Times as one of the Best Books of 2000. The New York Times praised the book as "witty and engaging... a fanciful and original take on the quietly helter-skelter world that lies within."
Founded in 1837, Knox is a national liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with students from 48 states and 40 nations. Knox's "Old Main" is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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