The Department of Literary Arts Contemporary Writers Reading Series brings to the Brown campus distinguished and experimental writers, providing access to significant voices in contemporary literature.

Participating Authors

Note: All Writers Online audio files require RealPlayer, a free mp3 player.

Paul Beatty

• Full Reading
  [Recorded: 03/03/94 | Run time: 43:41]
• “At Ease”, “Why That Abbot and Costello Vaudeville Mess Never Worked with Black People”: “Two Pinks Dots You Padre”: “Quote Unquote” (excerpt)
  [Recorded: 03/03/94 | Run time: 12:26]

Anselm Berrigan

• Token Enabler/Converted To What?/To Protect My Piracy/May 10, 2004/August 1, 1997 (excerpt)
  [Recorded: 10/21/04 | Run time: 8:54]

Geoffrey O'Brien

• Full Reading
  [Recorded: 03/24/94 | Run time: 34:58]
• From "The Hudson Mystery": (“The Prophetic Child”: “The Revery”; “The Inheritors of the Forest”; “The Meeting at Midnight”; “The Players”) (excerpt)
  [Recorded: 03/24/94 | Run time: 11:25]

Tom Raworth

• Full Reading
  [Recorded: 03/24/94 | Run time: 22:16]
• "Blue Screen" (excerpt)
  [Recorded: 03/24/94 | Run time: 6:30]