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Author to discuss latest novel during March 25 lecture |
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Kim Harvey |
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Mar 18, 2008 |
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Author Susan Coll will be on UT’s Main Campus Tuesday, March 25, to discuss her book,
Acceptance: A Novel.
Her visit is sponsored by UT’s Higher Education Program and the John H. Russel Center for Educational Leadership.
“Every year, we select a novel that represents a genre called academic literature to discuss in class,” explained Dr. David Meabon, associate professor and interim associate chair of educational foundations and leadership. “The setting is usually on a college campus, among the faculty or student populations, or the plot centers around a college campus.”
Students in Meabon’s class, The American College Student, will have lunch with Coll before her free, public program, which is scheduled from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in Student Union Room 3018.
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Participants may purchase a copy of
Acceptance: A Novel for Coll to sign after her program.
The book chronicles the high-pressure world of high school students as they strive for acceptance into prestigious universities.
George F. Will of Newsweek magazine called
Acceptance: A Novel “… hilarious and dismaying … alarming, disturbing, disquieting, agitating, perturbing …” Go to www.newsweek.com/id/35727 for Will’s full review.
Coll lives in Washington, D.C., and has written three novels:
Acceptance: A Novel, Rockville Pike and
karlmarx.com: A Love Story. She has authored articles and book reviews published in the International Herald Tribune, the Wall Street Journal Asia, the Far Eastern Economic Review and The Washington Post. Her short story, “Fire Safety Week,” was broadcast on BBC International Radio, and a chapter of her upcoming novel,
Brain Fever, written with J.H. Diehl, has appeared in Enhanced Gravity, a literary journal.
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