Fiction writer E.C. Osondu
When:
Monday, Oct 16, 2023 6:30p -
7:45p
Monday, Oct 16, 2023 6:30p -
7:45p
Where:
Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt)
621 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Admission:
FREE
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E.C. Osondu
Monday, October 16, 2023
6:30-7:45 p.m. In person
MassArt, 621 Huntington Avenue
Kennedy Building, Conference and Lounge K280
E.C. Osondu is the author of two collections of stories Voice of America and Alien Stories and the novels This House is Not For Sale and When the Sky is Ready the Stars Will Appear. He is a winner of the Caine Prize- a Pushcart Prize and the BOA Short Fiction Prize among other prizes.
His fiction has appeared in the Atlantic, Harper’s, AGNI, n+1, Guernica, Kenyon Review, McSweeney’s, Zyzzyva, The Threepenny Review, New Statesman and many other places and has been translated into over half a dozen languages. A contributing editor at AGNI, he has been a Visiting Professor at UT Austin and is currently a professor at Providence College in Rhode Island.
“Osondu probes the many meanings of alien in this revelatory collection about immigration and colonization…blurring and skipping back and forth between science fiction and realism.”
From Publisher’s Weekly
“One of the things he found most fascinating about America were the Memory Stores that could be found on almost every street corner. A person could simply walk into any of the stores and sell their memories for money. It was that straightforward. He had come to the realization that certain things were undoubtedly straightforward in America.”
-From Osondu’s story “Memory Store” in Alien Stories
