{"id":2606,"date":"2012-03-15T10:33:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T18:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2012-03-15T10:33:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T18:33:41","slug":"author-brian-doyle-lecture-wednesday-march-21-630-8-p-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/author-brian-doyle-lecture-wednesday-march-21-630-8-p-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Brian Doyle Reading & Book Signing, Wednesday, March 21, 6:30-8 p.m."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brian Doyle self-portrait and photo<\/p><\/div>\n

Brian Doyle, Author
\nReading & Book Signing
\nWednesday, March 21, 2012
\n6:30-8 p.m.
\nCollins Library, Room 020<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brian Doyle edits Portland Magazine<\/em> at the University of Portland, in Oregon \u2013 \u201cthe best spiritual magazine in the country,\u201d according to author Annie Dillard, obviously a woman of surpassing discernment. Doyle is the author of twelve books: six collections of essays, two nonfiction books (The Grail<\/em>, about a year in an Oregon vineyard, and The Wet Engine<\/em>, about hearts), two collections of \u201cproems,\u201d the short story collection Bin Laden\u2019s Bald Spot<\/em>, and the sprawling Oregon novel Mink River<\/em>. Doyle\u2019s books have five times been finalists for the Oregon Book Award, and his essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Harper\u2019s, Orion<\/em>, The American Scholar<\/em>, and in newspapers and magazines around the world. His essays have also been reprinted in the annual Best American Essays<\/em>, Best American Science & Nature Writing,<\/em> and Best American Spiritual Writing<\/em> anthologies. Among various honors for his work is a Catholic Book Award, two Pushcart Prizes, and, mysteriously, a 2008 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, this last particularly amazing because previous recipients include Saul Bellow, Kurt Vonnegut, Flannery O\u2019Connor, and Mary Oliver, and wouldn\u2019t that<\/em> be a great dinner table, you know?<\/p>\n

His greatest accomplishments are that a riveting woman said yup<\/em> when he mumbled a marriage proposal, that the Coherent Mercy then sent them three lanky snotty sneery testy sweet brilliant nutty muttering children in skin boats from the sea of the stars, and that he once made the all-star team in a Boston men\u2019s basketball league that was a really tough league<\/em>, guys drove the lane in that league they lost fingers, man, one time a guy drove to the basket and got hit so hard his right arm <\/em>fell off but he was lefty and hit both free throws, so there you go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brian Doyle, Author Reading & Book Signing Wednesday, March 21, 2012 6:30-8 p.m. Collins Library, Room 020 Brian Doyle edits Portland Magazine at the University of Portland, in Oregon \u2013 \u201cthe best spiritual magazine in the country,\u201d according to author … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}