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English: Readings and Lectures: Brian Doyle
Brian Doyle, award-winning author, essayist, and editor of the University of Portland's PortlandMagazine, will read from his work. Doyle's books include Saints Passionate & Peculiar, Credo, & Two Voices. Two Voices won a Christopher Award and a Catholic Press Association Book Award.
Portland, annually ranked among the ten best university magazines in America, and ranked first in 2002 among all American university magazines, has published work by Barry Lopez, Andre Dubus, Terry Tempest Williams, Edward Hoagland, Cynthia Ozick, Edward O. Wilson, Ian Frazier, Mary Gordon, Tony Hillerman, Jan Morris, James Carroll, Sallie Tisdale, Bill McKibben, Joseph Epstein, Mary Lee Settle, William and Kim Stafford, David James Duncan, Ursula Le Guin, Lou Masson, and Herman Asarnow, among many other fine writers.
Doyle’s own essays have appeared in The American Scholar, The Atlantic Monthly, Orion, Commonweal, Georgia Review, and Harper’s, among other periodicals. His essays have also been reprinted in the Best American Essays anthologies of 1998 and 1999, in Best Spiritual Writing 1999, 2001, and 2002, and in the anthologies Thoughts of Home (1995), Family (1997), In Brief (1998), Resurrecting Grace(2001). He also reviews books for The San Francisco Chronicle, The Oregonian , and Preservation magazine; is a columnist for The Age newspaper in Melbourne , Australia ; and is the recipient of The American Scholar’s Best Essay Award in 2000, for an essay on Plutarch.- english@up.edu
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