Wednesday, August 23, 2006

WILMINGTON, N.C.- Rebecca Lee, a fiction writer and associate professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, will read from her novel The City Is a Rising Tide (Simon & Schuster, 2006) at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 31 in Dobo Hall 103 (Dobo Auditorium). Lee's reading marks the start of a new academic year with literary events hosted by the Department of Creative Writing, primarily on Thursday evenings.

This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow, along with a book signing courtesy of Pomegranate Books.

Recent praise for The City Is a Rising Tide:
Lee's novel is beautiful and insane and unlike any other. The comedy lures you in, the scenes in Manhattan seduce you, the poetry stabs you in the heart.
-Jonathan Franzen, National Book Award-winning The Corrections

The pleasure of reading The City Is a Rising Tide comes from its crystalline prose as well as its almost poetic descriptions of life in the big city . . . New York has never seemed so beautiful, so ineffable, like a shimmering Emerald City of the East whose unspeakable loveliness almost takes your breath away.
-San Francisco Chronicle

Other upcoming events:
• Naturalist and UNCW Publishing Laboratory author Andy Wood, reading and signing Backyard Carolina: Two Decades of Public Radio Commentary, 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 14, WHQR Gallery, Front St., downtown Wilmington

• Creative writing department chair Phil Furia, musical evening and book signing, "Mood Indigo: A Tribute to Duke Ellington," 8 p.m., Friday, Sept. 22, Kenan Auditorium, UNCW; tickets required

• UNCW visiting writer Rob Reiss, talk and reading, 8 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 7, Dobo 103, UNCW

• UNCW alumna Catherine McCall, reading and signing Lifeguarding: A Memoir of Secrets, Swimming, and the South, 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 28, Randall Library Auditorium, UNCW

• UNCW visiting writer George Singleton, Buckner lecture and reading, 8 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 26, Randall Library Auditorium, UNCW

For further information on these programs and events, please contact the Department of Creative Writing at 910.962.7063.

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