Exhibit X Presents A Reading by Diane Williams

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Oct 1st 2005, 1:04pm By queenseyes

Diane Williams' most recent book of fiction is Romancer Erector. Her other books include Excitability: Selected Stories; This Is About the Body, the Mind, the World, Time, and Fate; Some Sexual Success Stories, Plus Other Stories in Which God Might Choose to Appear; and The Stupefaction. She is the founding editor of the literary annual Noon.

Exhibit X is a co-presentation of Hallwalls and the UB English Department, which funds this free ongoing series as a public service of UB. Writers are selected and introduced by Christina Milletti.

Christina Milletti's fiction has appeared in several journals and anthologies, such as The Alaska Review, The Chicago Review, and The Greensboro Review, as well as Harcourt's Best New American Voices, and Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops. Recently, novelist Paul West devoted a chapter to her fiction in his book Master Class. She has written a collection of short stories, The Religious, and is now at work on a novel, Room in the Hotel America.

Her dissertation, Innovative Ends: Gender and the Poetics of Transformation in Women's Experimental Fiction, examines the intersections of gender, performance, and speech act theory in the work of twentieth century women writers. Her teaching interests include: creative writing (fiction), theories of writing, hypertext and digital studies, twentieth century fiction, women's literature, feminist theory, and the history of the novel. She is the founder of and currently a Contributing Editor to BathHouse magazine, an on-line journal of cross-genre and interdisciplinary writing at www.emunix.emich.edu/~bhouse, as well as a former editor of The Little Magazine at www.albany.edu/~litmag.

Hallwalls (Con) temporary Art Center (temporary storefront gallery) 700 Main Street, in the downtown Theater District. Free. Tuesday, October 18, 2005 i 7:00 P.M.

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