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Article: AMHERST COLLEGE PROFESSOR LAWRENCE DOUGLAS TO READ THE CATASTROPHIST AT AMHERST COLLEGE MAY 3
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- April 10, 2006
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Amherst University issued the following press release:
Lawrence Douglas, a professor of law, jurisprudence and social thought at Amherst College, will read from his forthcoming novel, The Catastrophist ($24.95, 276 pp., The Other Press, New York, 2006), at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 3, at Amherst Books (8 Main St., Amherst, Mass.) Sponsored by the Creative Writing Center at Amherst College, the reading is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
The Catastrophist is "mercilessly witty... surprising and original," according to William H. Pritchard '53, the Henry Clay Folger Professor of English at Amherst College. Before publication, Kirkus Reviews wrote in a starred ...