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Contra dance set for April 6 at Church of Christ Uniting in Kingston

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Nominations being accepted for Rose Brader Community Service Award

<p>Elissa Schappell, author, short-story writer and editor, will serve as the King&#8217;s College Visiting Writer for the current academic year.</p><p>Schappell will visit King&#8217;s from Monday, April 1 through Tuesday, April 2 as part of the program sponsored by the College&#8217;s English department She will present a reading from her book &#8220;Blueprints for Building Better Girls,&#8221; that is free and open to the public on Monday, April 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Burke Auditorium. She will also meet with students in a short story and literature class during her two-day residency</p><p>Schappell is most known for her two books &#8220;Use Me,&#8221; runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and &#8220;Blueprints for Building Better Girls,&#8221; chosen as one of the &#8220;Best Books of the Year&#8221; in 2011 by the &#8220;San Francisco Chronicle,&#8221; &#8220;The Boston Globe,&#8221; &#8220;The Wall Street Journal,&#8221; &#8220;Newsweek&#8221; and &#8220;O&#8221;magazine.</p><p>In addition to writing novels, Schappell is a contributing author for &#8220;Vanity Fair,&#8221; former senior editor at &#8220;Paris Review&#8221; and a founding editor and editor-at-large of &#8220;Tin House.&#8221; She currently teaches in the Master&#8217;s degree Fiction Writing Program at Columbia University.</p><p>The Burke Auditorium is located in the McGowan School of Business on North River Street. Books will be available for purchase at the event. A book signing and Q and A will follow the reading.</p><p>Parking will be available at on-campus lots. Seating is available on a first-come, first-serve basis. For more information please contact Jennifer Judge Yonkoski, assistant technical professor of English at King&#8217;s College, at 570-208-5900, ext 5487 or email at jenniferyonkoski@kings.edu.</p><style>
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Elissa Schappell will serve as King’s College Visiting Writer April 1, 2