On Monday and Tuesday, February 11 and 12, 2013, the English Department will host Visiting Writer John Jeremiah Sullivan, who will read from his work (Monday) and deliver a lecture titled "The Essay and the 'Mag Piece': A Double Helix" (Tuesday). Both reading and lecture will take place at 8:00 p.m. in Dow Center A and B. Both the reading and talk are free and open to the public. For further information, please contact Dr. John Somerville at (517) 607-2431.

A journalist/essayist and author of two books, Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter's Son (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2004) and Pulphead: Essays (FSG 2011), Mr. Sullivan is a graduate of the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee. He has since held positions as a senior editor at Harper's Magazine and as a correspondent at GQ Magazine, and is currently a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and is Southern Editor for The Paris Review. Mr. Sullivan teaches part time in the creative writing program at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Among the honors he has received are National Magazine Awards for Feature Writing (2003) and for Essays and Criticism (2011), a Whiting Writers' Award (2004), and Pushcart Prize (2011). He has also been a finalist for The PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir (2005) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (2011).

His two books are currently available for purchase in the College Bookstore.

(Photo by Maria Sullivan)