CONWAY, Ark. (January 25, 2016) – Writer Sarah Manguso
will present the 2016 Robert and Lilian Drake Endowed Lecture on Thursday, Feb.
4, at 7:30 p.m., in Reves Recital Hall at Hendrix Colllege. Manguso will speak
on the topic of "Writing and Desire."
The lecture, sponsored by the Hendrix College Department of
English, is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Hendrix
English professor Dr. Giffen Maupin at 501-450- 1238 or maupin@hendrix.edu.
About Sarah Manguso
Manguso is the author, most recently, of three autobiographies: Ongoingness, The Guardians, and The Two Kinds of Decay. Her
other books include the story collection
Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape and the poetry collections Siste Viator and The Captain Lands in Paradise.
Her next book, Three Hundred
Arguments, is forthcoming next year. Her essays have appeared in Harper's, the New York Review of Books, and
the New York Times Magazine,
among other places, and her poems have won a Pushcart Prize and appeared in
four editions of the Best American Poetry series. The recipient of a Guggenheim
Fellowship and the Rome Prize, she has taught writing at Columbia, Fairfield,
the New School, NYU, Pratt, Princeton, and the Otis College of Art and Design.
She grew up near Boston and now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she
is currently the Distinguished Visiting Writer at St. Mary's College. For more
information, visit http://www.sarahmanguso.com.
About the Robert and Lilian Drake
Endowed Lecture
Established in 2001 by Robert Y.
Drake Jr. in memory of his parents, the Robert and Lillian Drake Endowed
Lectureship series at Hendrix College funds an annual lecture. Professor Drake
taught Southern Literature and creative writing at the University of Tennessee
from 1965 until his retirement in 1999. His short stories about growing up in
West Tennessee are familiar to a generation of Southern readers. While on
sabbatical during the fall of 1982, Drake was a visiting professor at Hendrix
and taught a popular course in "Recent Southern Fiction" to 43
students. During his stay at Hendrix, which was funded by the Hendrix-Murphy
Foundation, he also gave public readings and lectures for the Bertie Wilson
Murphy Symposium in Literature and Language. The affinity he developed for
Hendrix as a visiting professor inspired him to establish the lectureship in
the English Department. In February 2004, Miller Williams, University Professor
of English and Foreign Languages at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville,
gave the inaugural lecture.
About Hendrix College
Hendrix College is a private
liberal arts college in Conway, Arkansas. Founded in 1876 and affiliated with
the United Methodist Church since 1884, Hendrix is featured in Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That
Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges
and is nationally recognized in numerous college guides, lists, and rankings for
academic quality, community, innovation, and value. For more information, visit
www.hendrix.edu.