November 1, 2012, Thursday - Anne Panning Publication Reading: Butter at The Loft

Tme: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft, Performance Hall, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Anne Panning Publication Reading: Butter 
 
Award winning author Anne Panning will read from and discuss her new novel Butter.  Anne Panning’s fiction has been described as warm and original by Publishers Weekly, intelligent and humorous by the Boston Globe, graceful and wry by Booklist, and infectious and enchanting by the New York Times. In fact, Panning’s last collection of short stories, Super America, was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Enter this exciting new novel, the best work yet from a writer whose astute observations of American life are as honest as they are engaging.

Butter is a coming of age tale set against the backdrop of small-town Minnesota during the 1970s and told from the perspective of an eleven-year-old girl, Iris, who learns from her parents that she is adopted.  In the end, Iris’s story represents a profound meditation on growing up estranged in small town America—on being an outsider in a world increasingly averse to them.  Passionate and intense this moving novel is a rich exploration of a crucial theme in American literature that will confirm Anne Panning’s place as a major figure in the world of contemporary fiction.

Anne Panning has published Super America, which won The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She has also published The Price of Eggs: Stories.  Four of her essays have received notable citation in The Best American Essays series. Originally from Arlington, Minnesota, she teaches creative writing at SUNY-Brockport in upstate New York. Her grandfather was a butter maker.

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC