[Purple-Blurb] Lance Olsen tomorrow (Monday) 5:30pm in 14E-310

[Nick Montfort]

"Lance Olsen is at the center of every discussion I have about the 
contemporary landscape of innovative and experimental writing."

   -Bookslut


Lance Olsen

April 7, 5:30pm

MIT's Room 14E-310

Experimental writing & video

Including a reading from his recent book [[ there. ]] and video from his 
Theories of Forgetting project.

Lance Olsen is author of more than 20 books of and about innovative 
writing, including two appearing this spring: the novel based on Robert 
Smithson’s earthwork the Spiral Jetty, Theories of Forgetting (accompanied 
by a short experimental film made by one of its characters), and [[ there. 
]], a trash-diary meditation on the confluence of travel, curiosity, and 
experimental writing practices. His short stories, essays, and reviews 
have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies. A Guggenheim, 
Berlin Prize, N.E.A. Fellowship, and Pushcart Prize recipient, as well as 
a Fulbright Scholar, he teaches experimental theory and practice at the 
University of Utah.

Read the Bookslut interview about Lance Olsen's [[ there. ]]:

http://www.bookslut.com/features/2014_03_020558.php

More on the Purple Blurb series:

http://trope-tank.mit.edu/purple_blurb/

Purple Blurb takes place on MIT's main campus in Building 14, the same 
building that is the home of the Hayden Library. 14E-310 in in the East 
Wing, third floor, across the courtyard from the library entrance (do not 
enter the library to get to 14E-310).

Purple Blurb is free and open to the public, no reservation required.

  -Nick