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MARICK PRESS PRESENTS A READING WITH EILEEN POLLACK, DERICK BURLESON AND DAVID DODD LEE AT TECHTOWN, May 16, 6 PM, 440 BURROUGHS, DETROIT, MI.


GROSSE POINTE PARK, Mich. – Marick Press, a Michigan based lite...rary publisher dedicated to poetry and creative writing, pres...ents a reading with acclaimed writer Eileen Pollack the author of Breaking and Entering, a NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE selection book, Derick Burleson and David Dodd Lee.


“A big, provocative novel that sets an intimate story about a passionate affair against a troubling backdrop of right-wing violence and extremism. Eileen Pollack is a brave writer, plunging without fear into the murky waters of sex, religion, and politics.” —Tom Perrotta


“A very real accomplishment—an admirable, serious, and important novel of ideas that does not neglect characters.” —Antonya Nelson


“Eileen Pollack takes on the taboos and mores of Middle America—religious, ethnic, sexual, political—with boldness, wit and ultimately a surprising and serious sympathy.” —Peter Ho Davies


“Whatever our politics, there are times we can all feel like foreigners and outcasts in our own country, just as Louise becomes a foreigner in her own marriage. And it is Louise who carries the novel, with her good impulses, her fallibility and her wish for a transforming passion. We always hope that people can change, reassess, realign. It is fitting that Louise, at the novel’s end, provides just enough hope to bring the story home. THE NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW


"Louise Shapiro is thoroughly beset in this thorny, lucid novel. Her bad luck begins in California, where her husband abandons his psychology practice and takes a job in a rural Michigan prison. Louise struggles to adjust to the heartland, which seems overpopulated with religious nuts and militia members. Her husband drifts away into a rebellious, gun-toting fugue, and the lover she takes becomes remote in his own way. Contributing to and reflecting her malaise is the ominous sociopolitical climate: the Oklahoma City bombing occurs midway, and throughout Louise grapples with the suddenly vivid awareness that the country is full of people whose worldviews are almost incomprehensibly different from her own. Her increasingly nuanced view of the sociopolitical divide is reflected in Pollack’s sensitive portrayals of both liberal Louise and her ilk, and their conservative counterparts. Weaving the personal with the political, Pollack (In the Mouth) creates an encompassing haze of dissatisfaction and misdirected passion. Despite the unrelenting misfortune, though, the tone is more solemn than dark; there’s a beautiful contemplativeness, and a believable sense of redemption in the end. Louise is jarred into a kind of awakening that might not have occurred in comfortable Berkeley, and is, if not happier, more enlightened for it."

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Eileen Pollack is the author of two collections of short fiction, The Rabbi in the Attic and In the Mouth (which won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award); a novel, Paradise, New York; and a work of creative nonfiction called Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull (winner of a 2003 WILLA finalist award). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Michener Foundation, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and the Massachusetts Arts Council. Her novella "The Bris" was chosen to appear in the Best American Short Stories 2007 anthology, edited by Stephen King, while her stories have been awarded two Pushcart Prizes, the Cohen Award for best fiction of the year from Ploughshares, and similar awards from Literary Review and MQR. She lives in Ann Arbor and teaches on the faculty of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan.

Derick Burleson is the author of two previous collections of poems: Never Night (Marick Press, 2007), and Ejo: Poems, Rwanda 1991-94 (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000). His poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, The Southern Review and Poetry, among other journals. He directs the MFA program in Creative Writing Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and lives in Two Rivers.

David Dodd Lee lives in Indiana, travels extensively in the United States from the Mojave Desert, Eureka Springs, Arkansas, the wilds of Kentucky, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, to Alaska and the coast of Maine.
His poems have appeared in The Nation, Field, Denver Quarterly, Nerve, Jacket, Court Green, and in many other places. His fourth full-length book (Sky Booths in the Breath Somewhere, the Ashbery Erasure Poems), taught him how to write the poems in his next two full-length books: The Nervous Filaments (Four Way Books, 2010) and Orphan, Indiana (University of Akron Press, 2010). He is the author of seven books, including one chapbook, and he is the editor of two poetry/fiction anthologies (Shade, 2004, 2006) as well as a selected poems of Herbert Scott (The Other Life, Carnegie Mellon, 2010). He is also a photographer, painter; writes and publishes fiction, publishes chapbooks and full-length poetry titles (he is the Editor-in-Chief of 42 Miles Press), and teaches classes in poetry, publishing, and visual art at Indiana University South Bend. He lives in Osceola, east of South Bend, on Baugo Bay.

This is an entrance-free event.

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