Fiction Reading by Charles BaxterApril 25, 2017 at 7–8 p.m.

Tuesday, April 25, from 7 to 8p.m. in the Melva Lind Interpretive Center, as the final installment of the Bards in the Arb series, the English Department and Writing Center are thrilled to welcome Charles Baxter, the author, most recently, of There's Something I Want You to Do, a finalist for the Story Prize in 2016. Baxter has published three novels, four books of stories, and two books of essays on fiction writing. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, and Harper's, among other journals and magazines. His fiction has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories seven times, eleven times in The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and translated into many languages. A finalist for the National Book Award, Baxter has received the Award of Merit in the Short Story and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Rea Award in the Short Story. He now lives in Minneapolis and is currently the Edelstein-Keller Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota.