Author Daniel Torday to Speak at SUNY Canton Oct. 17

SUNY Canton will host author and Director of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College Daniel Torday as part of its Living Writers Series at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, in the College?s Kingston Theater. The event is free and open to the public.

Torday will be reading from his latest novella, ?The Sensualist,? which was published this spring. He will also answer questions about his writing and be available for book signings.

?We are thrilled to welcome Daniel Torday to SUNY Canton as part of our ongoing Living Writers Course created by Assistant Professor Phil LaMarche,? said School of Business and Liberal Arts Interim Dean Maureen P. Maiocco. ?These events allow our students to meet and hear from some of the most talented writers today.?

Torday?s fiction and nonfiction works have appeared in?Esquire Magazine,?Glimmer Train, Harper Perennial?s?Fifty-Two Stories,?the Harvard Review?and?the Kenyon Review.

LaMarche described Torday?s writing as ?A window into the world of his characters, but also a mirror, reflecting our own lives and the culture we inhabit.?

?The Sensualist? tells the tale of 17-year-old Samuel Gerson, who is ready to rid himself of the tight-knit Jewish community in which he?s spent his whole life. But when he befriends enigmatic Dmitri Zilber, a recent Russian Jewish immigrant who is obsessed with the works of Dostoevsky, Samuel?s world begins to shift. As his life increasingly entangles with that of Dmitri and his beautiful sister Yelizaveta, it sets in motion a series of events that culminates in a disturbing act of violence.

Fall 2012 is the first semester that the Living Writers Course has been offered. Students enrolled in the class read the books by authors scheduled to visit the College. Best-selling author Mary Karr visited the College in September, and the next presenter will be Adam Levin, author of ?The Instructions,? on Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m.

Media inquiries should be directed to?Gregory Kie, Media Relations Manager, or call 315/386-7527.

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