reading at Pennsylvania State University. Arriving—most
recently—from St. Petersburg and New York City,
Novakovich is the new addition to the fiction side of
Penn State’s Master’s of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) program.
When: November 27, 2001, 8 p.m.
Where: Lipcon Auditorium of the Palmer Museum Art
Curtain Road
The Pennsylvania State University (PSU)
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 865-7672
Presented by the College of the Liberal Arts
The Pennsylvania State University (PSU)
110 Sparks Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-7691
*The week of Week of May 4 – May 10, 2002, A National
Public Radio’s (NPR) program called “Selected Shorts”
will broadcast Novakovich’s short story “A Whale’s
Throat” read by Jerry Orbach from Novakovich’s
book “Salvation and Other Disasters” (Graywolf Press).
Novakovich is the winner of the O.Henry prize, the most
prestigious American award in short fiction, awarded to
just 20 American short stories yearly. His list of
credentials includes having been awarded a Guggenheim
Fellowship.
His books include Salvation and Other Disasters: Short
Stories (Graywolf, May 1998), Apricots from Chernobyl:
Narratives (Graywolf, April 1995), Yolk: Short Stories
(Graywolf, September 1995), Writing Fiction Step by Step
(Story, July 1998), Fiction Writer’s Workshop (Writers
Digest Books, April 1995 and February 1998). He also co-
edited Stories in the Stepmother Tongue with Robert
Shapard (White Pine, September 2000).
Frank Mustac
frankmustac@att.net
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