Ruth Ozeki, “A Tale for the Time Being” — Reading & Booksigning

May 10, 2013
7:00 pmto9:00 pm

Erb Memorial Union (EMU), Fir Room, 1222 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus, Eugene    FREE & open to the public
ATaleforTimeBeingRuth Ozeki is a Canadian-American novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. Her new novel, A Tale for the Time Being, was published in March by Viking. She is also the author of My Year of Meats and All Over Creation.

“A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.” — from the novel

“Full of Ozeki’s signature humor and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home.” — from the book jacket.

New York Times book review

“What the Tide Brought In,” by Felicia R. Lee (New York Times)

The 2013 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium is sponsored by the University of Oregon Center for the Study of Women in Society, Women Writers Project; Eugene Public Library; Oregon Humanities Center; Department of English; Department of Women’s and Gender Studies; School of Journalism and Communication; and UO Libraries.

“Common Ground: Land, Language, Story” — the 2013 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium

The Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon hosts the second annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium May 9 – 11, 2013 in Eugene in cooperation with Eugene Pubic Library. This event features: 1) a Thursday evening panel on the UO campus with novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki and five others based on her novel All Over Creation; 2) a reading and booksigning on Friday, May 10, on the UO campus with novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki from her newest work, A Tale for the Time Being (Viking, March 2013); and 3) a morning panel “Common Ground: Land, Language, Story” and afternoon workshops at Downtown Eugene Public Library on Saturday, May 11. The Saturday morning panel features writers Ruth Ozeki, Karen Holmberg, Karen Karbo, and Theresa May. The Saturday afternoon workshops feature writers Cai Emmons, Debra Gwartney, Cecelia Hagen, Evelyn Hess, and Lauren Kessler.

Thursday, May 9 panel   6:00 pm to 8:00 pm  “Too Many P’s”? Personal, Political, Publics and Potatoes — a conversation about the politics of food and kinship with novelist Ruth Ozeki and five others, Fir Room, 6 p.m., Erb Memorial Union (EMU), UO campus, 1222 E. 13th, Eugene. Free and open to the public.

Friday, May 10 reading & booksigning with Ruth Ozeki, 7 p.m., Fir Room, Erb Memorial Union (EMU), UO campus, 1222 E. 13th, Eugene. Free and open to the public.

Saturday, May 11 panel & workshops:  9:00 am to 3:30 pm   Eugene Public Library, 10th Ave. & Olive St. (100 W 10th Ave Eugene, OR 97401). Free and open to the public.  Starting April 20, pre-register for limited spaces for the Saturday afternoon workshops at: 541-682-5450 (Press 2).