September 19, 2003

Novelist Frederick Busch To Give Reading At Boise State Oct. 10

Fiction writer Frederick Busch will present a reading at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, in the Boise State University Student Union Lookout Room. The reading, presented as part of the Boise State English department’s Master of Fine Arts Reading Series, is free and open to the public.     Busch has published 21 books of fiction, beginning in 1971 with I Wanted a Year Without Fall. Books since then have included The Mutual Friend (about Charles Dickens), Girls, The Night Inspector (about Herman Melville), Don’t Tell Anyone, and his most recent novel, A Memory of War. He has also authored several books on writing, including Letters to a Fiction Writer, A Dangerous Profession and When People Publish.     Until recently, Busch taught undergraduate creative writing classes at Colgate University. He lives in upstate New York with his wife, Judy, and his aging Labradors. He is currently working on his next novel, North, and dreaming of a house on the coast of Maine. -30- Contact Mia Wright English department 208 426-3862 Media Contact Kathleen Craven communications and marketing 208 426-3275