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Join us for a reading and refreshments to welcome the new Writer in Residence.
New Writer in Residence David Giffels will read from his latest memoir, just released in paperback, Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life. After the reading, enjoy light refreshments and conversation as well as a book signing.
Past Writers in Residence also will attend the celebration: Dave Lucas (Weather), the current Ohio Poet Laureate, and novelist Claire McMillan (The Necklace). Books by all of the Writers in Residence will be available for purchase and signing courtesy of Mac’s Backs – Books on Coventry.
About the new Writer in Residence
David Giffels’s latest memoir, Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life, was praised by the New York Times Book Review as “tender, witty and ... painstakingly and subtly wrought,” and by Kirkus Reviews as “a heartfelt memoir about the connection between a father and son.” It was a January 2018 Book of the Month pick by Amazon and Powell’s Books and a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice.”
Giffels’s previous books include The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches From the Rust Belt, and the memoir All the Way Home, winner of the Ohioana Book Award. He is the coauthor, with Jade Dellinger, of the rock biography Are We Not Men? We Are Devo! and, with Steve Love, Wheels of Fortune: The Story of Rubber in Akron.
A former Akron Beacon Journal columnist, his writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, Parade, the Wall Street Journal, Esquire, Grantland, Redbook, and many other publications. He also was a writer for the MTV series Beavis and Butt-Head.
He is an associate professor of English at the University of Akron, where he teaches creative nonfiction in the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program. As Writer in Residence, Giffels will teach a monthly class at the William N. Skirball Writers’ Center and participate in select library events.
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