Article: New Yorker writers explore extraordinary amid ordinary at U. Michigan

K.K. Schmier
University Wire
11-09-2004
(Michigan Daily) (U-WIRE) ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Readers have the schizophrenic tendency to hear voices in their heads -- they invent the cool drawl of the adulterous mother or the deep, rich Slavic accent of the exiled Bosnian man. They use their imaginations to create tones and inflections, to give life to the lines of dialogue they see on the page.

On Oct. 27, readers traded literary characters' imaginary sounds for the real voices of New Yorker fiction writers Antonya Nelson and Aleksander Hemon, who read from their work as part of the New Yorker College Tour. Audience members traveled from their world of make-believe to Nelson and Hemon's, hearing ...

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