Rutgers Hosts Lecture on Becoming a Jewish Novelist

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – Award-winning novelist Dara Horn will present a lecture entitled “Field Notes on Becoming a Jewish Novelist” at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Dec. 8, in the Rutgers Student Center on College Avenue. The program is free and open to the public. Advance registration is requested.

Horn is the author of In the Image and The World to Come, for which she received the 2003 and 2006 National Jewish Book Awards, respectively. The latter was selected as an Editor’s Choice in The New York Times Book Review and as one of the Best Books of 2006 by the San Francisco Chronicle. Her latest novel, All Other Nights, will be published in March 2009.

The lecture is sponsored by the Rutgers Department of Comparative Literature and the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, which connects the university with the community through public lectures, symposia, Jewish communal initiatives, cultural events and teacher training.

To register for the program, e-mail csjlrsvp@rci.rutgers.edu, or call 732-932-2033. For more information, visit jewishstudies.rutgers.edu.

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