NORTH PARK — "Barbara the Slut" is the debut short story collection from author Lauren Holmes, who leads Northeastern Illinois University's 2015-16 Visiting Writers Series.
Holmes will read from her book at 3 p.m., Sept. 15 in Recital Hall. (Click here for campus map.)
The Tribune calls the book a "funny yet penetrating look at modern sexual politics."
The complete lineup:
Darin Strauss, Oct. 20: Perhaps best known for his novel "Chang and Eng," Strauss has earned kudos for his memoir "Half a Life," which recounts the automobile accident that changed the course of his life.
LaTasha Diggs, Nov. 17: Diggs will read from her poetry collection "Twerk." The Poetry Foundation calls her an "indisciplinary poet and sound artist" whose work "is truly hybrid: languages and modes are grafted together and furl out insistently from each bound splice."
Sara Levine and Brigid Pasulka, February 2016: Levine, a writing professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will read from "Treasure Island!!!," in which the main character adopts the values of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure tale. Pasulka's "The Sun and Other Stars" is set in Italy but deals with universal themes of loss, family and love.
Randa Jarrar, March 2016: The narrator of Jarrar's novel "A Map of Home" is a Muslim-American girl who's born in the U.S., grows up in Kuwait and moves to Egypt and then Texas. Throughout her story, Jarrar weaves in real historical events that shape her heroine's life.
Rob Spillman, April 2016: Spillman is editor of Tin House magazine and has written extensively about books for Details, Salon and Bookforum.
Now in its fourth year, the series is free and open to the public.
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