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\"Three<\/a>The Kalamazoo College Bookstore will host an author event featuring readings by four writers with strong K connections. Gail Griffin<\/strong> (professor emerita of English) joins fellow English department faculty members Bruce Mills<\/strong> and Andy Mozina<\/strong> and Professor of Physical Education (and women\u2019s volleyball coach) Jeanne Hess<\/strong> on Wednesday, May 14, from 6 PM to 8 PM in the Hicks Center Banquet Room. The four will read from current works that include Gail\u2019s The Events of October<\/em><\/a>, a compelling account of the murder-suicide on K\u2019s campus in 1999; Bruce\u2019s memoir An Archaeology of Yearning<\/em><\/a>, a chronicle of family relationships (particularly with his son, Jacob) and the role of art (particularly storytelling) as a way to fulfill human yearning for contact between people whose ways of knowing may differ; Andy\u2019s new collection of short stories, Quality Snacks<\/em><\/a>, which will be fresh off the presses for the May event; and Jeanne\u2019s Sportuality<\/em>, an examination of the intersection of sports and spirituality. The event will allow ample time for Q&A. Books will be available for purchase; the authors will gladly sign them; and refreshments will be served. All are invited; let\u2019s move the number four more toward four hundred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Professor of Physical Education (and women\u2019s volleyball coach) <strong>Jeanne Hess<\/strong> on Wednesday, May 14, from 6 PM to 8 PM in the Hicks Center Banquet Room. The four will read from current works that include Gail\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/8686580-the-events-of-october\"><em>The Events of October<\/em><\/a>, a compelling account of the murder-suicide on K\u2019s campus in 1999; Bruce\u2019s memoir <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/an-archaeology-of-yearning\/\"><em>An Archaeology of Yearning<\/em><\/a>, a chronicle of family relationships (particularly with his son, Jacob) and the role of art (particularly storytelling) as a way to fulfill human yearning for contact between people whose ways of knowing may differ; Andy\u2019s new collection of short stories, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/20419217-quality-snacks\"><em>Quality Snacks<\/em><\/a>, which will be fresh off the presses for the May event; and Jeanne\u2019s <em>Sportuality<\/em>, an examination of the intersection of sports and spirituality. The event will allow ample time for Q&A. Books will be available for purchase; the authors will gladly sign them; and refreshments will be served. All are invited; let\u2019s move the number four more toward four hundred.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12130,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions\/12130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}