Rikki Ducornet reads March 2nd!

This upcoming Tuesday, March 2nd, Rikki Ducornet will be reading at the Columns Hotel. Ducornet is a renowned novelist, poet, and artist. She has published seven novels, two short-story collections, five books of poetry, illustrated Jorge Luis Borge’s “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” and has lived in four different continents. Her paintings, illustrations and lithographs are exhibited internationally. She received the Lannan Literary Award in Fiction in 1993. Her novel The Fan Maker’s Inquisition won L.A. Time’s book of the year and The Jade Cabinet was a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award. She is even allegedly the inspiration for the Steely Dan song “Rikki Don’t Lose that Number” and is guaranteed to brighten your evening.

Please arrive early to enjoy happy hour at the Columns. The reading will start at 7pm, with student readers Nicola Wolf and Chris Jennings to follow Ducornet after a brief intermission.

“It is the work of the writer to move beyond the simple definitions or descriptions of things– which is of limited interest after all– and to bring a dream to life through the alchemy of language; to move from the street– the place of received ideas– into the forest, the place of the unknown.” – Rikki Ducornet, on the subject of writing (Lannan)