UMF Visiting Writers Collection options ‘Swallowed by the Chilly’ writer Jensen Seashore, Nov 16

FARMINGTON — The College of Maine at Farmington’s celebrated Visiting Writers Collection is happy to current fiction author Jensen Seashore as the favored program’s third reader of the 2023-24 season. Seashore will learn from his work at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16 in The Touchdown within the UMF Olsen Scholar Middle. The studying is free and open to the general public and shall be adopted by a e book signing with the writer.

Seashore’s newest assortment “Swallowed by the Chilly” (Graywolf 2017) is a linked assortment about fragmented grief, private and political disasters, and the haunting honesty characters really feel snug sharing with strangers, whereas approaching their family members with distance and coldness. It’s a recipient of the 2017 Vermont E-book Award

A Paris Overview employees decide, reviewer Daniel Johnson states, ”Swallowed by the Chilly empathizes with the way in which we get too caught up in our personal messes to note when our fellow man is, nevertheless figuratively, bleeding out alone on a seashore.” Brandon Taylor of Electrical Literature writes, “Jensen Seashore strikes deftly in and round all of his characters’ lives, typically revealing with stark and startling readability all of the absurdity and sweetness current in even essentially the most mundane of each day rhythms.”