{"id":6256,"date":"2015-04-23T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=6256"},"modified":"2015-04-23T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T14:41:00","slug":"couser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/couser\/","title":{"rendered":"Event | G. Thomas Couser ’77 to Deliver Annual Yoken Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"
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G. Thomas Couser ’77<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

G. Thomas Couser \u201877, Professor Emeritus of English at Hofstra University, will deliver the annual Mel and Cindy Yoken Cultural Series Lecture on Monday, April 27 at 5:30 p.m. in the Lownes Room at the John Hay Library. In his talk, “A Life in Letters – Letters as Life,” Couser will discuss the process of writing his father’s memoir and how that process led him to appreciate the many values of correspondence.<\/p>\n

A reception will follow the lecture. This event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

Couser based the memoir on letters he found in a closet when his father died. The writing process led him to appreciate\u00a0 correspondence as historical and biographical evidence, as a medium of self-expression, and as the very stuff of relational life.<\/p>\n

Couser\u00a0received his Ph.D. from Brown in 1977 and is the author of several books on disability studies and American literature, including Memoir: An Introduction<\/i>, a survey of the memoir genre.<\/p>\n

Friends of the Library<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is an association interested in fostering the growth and usefulness of the Brown University Library and in encouraging gifts of books, desirable collections, other scholarly materials and funds.<\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>: Monday, April 27, 2015
\nTime<\/strong>: 5:30\u00a0p.m.
\nLocation<\/strong>: Lownes Room, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect Street, Providence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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