This year鈥檚 Fletcher Lecture is Mississippi Novelist Mary Miller
Mary Miller, acclaimed author of Biloxi and The Last Days of California, a wide array of short fiction, and considered a preeminent coming-of-age writer, will be the 果冻APP 2019 Fletcher Lecturer.
Miller鈥檚 presentation will be at 6 p.m. October 3, 2019, in the auditorium of Gouaux Hall on 果冻APP鈥檚 campus. The talk is free and open to the public. Miller will sign books afterward. Books will be on sale in the lobby outside the auditorium. 聽Miller will host a question and answer session at 11 a.m. in the Le Bijou Theater in the 果冻APP Student Union.
Miller’s first novel, The Last Days of California, achieved critical and popular acclaim and novelist Alexis Smith has called it 鈥渢he Sense and Sensibility of pre-Apocalypse America.鈥� 聽Miller鈥檚 short fiction has appeared in the Oxford American, New Stories from the South, McSweeney鈥檚 Quarterly, American Short Fiction, Mississippi Review, among many others.聽 The National Book Review called her most recent collection of stories, Always Happy Hour, a 鈥渟tunning (and well-titled) collection of short fiction involving complicated, unprivileged women on the precipice of adulthood.鈥� Biloxi is Miller鈥檚 most recent novel, and it has already met with critical and popular acclaim.
For more on the Fletcher Lecture and Mary Miller’s campus visit, please visit the Fletcher Lecture webpage.
