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Ted Pelton award-winning author Tuesday, March 18 8:30 p.m. * * * * * Free and open to the public. |
In 2000, award-winning novelist Ted Pelton was at a crossroads. Having earned both a doctorate in English and a National Endowment for the Arts grant for fiction writing, he still couldn’t get his edgy, politically-charged fiction accepted for publication. Stymied by the more mainstream sensibilities of conventional publishing houses, he decided to establish another one―and so Starcherone (pronounced “Start-yer-own”) Press was born. Beloiters will have an opportunity to hear from this writer and entrepreneur at a reading of his works on Tuesday, March 18, at 8:30 p.m., in the south lounge of the World Affairs Center, on the Beloit College campus. The reading will be followed by a question-and-answer session and is free and open to the public.
Since founding Starcherone Press, Pelton has published four books, including Bhang (2004) and Malcolm & Jack and Other Famous American Criminals (2006). The latter is based on a fictional friendship between 1960s counter-culture icons Malcolm X and Jack Kerouac, and the editoral review on Amazon.com describes it as “ …not nostalgia, but a genuine re-imagining of postwar desire.”
The recent winner of a prestigious Isherwood Foundation grant, Pelton also serves as an associate professor of humanities at Medaille College in Buffalo, N.Y. More about him can be found online at www.starcherone.com/ted.
For details about the reading, contact Jayson Iwen, visiting assistant professor of English, at iwenj@beloit.eduor 608-363-2195. Information about this and other events at Beloit College can be found online at www.beloit.edu