Oct. 26: Minnesota State Mankato's Good Thunder Reading Series Features Writer Aruni Kashyap

Thursday, October 26, 2023
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
First event

Mankato, Minn. – Minnesota State University, Mankato’s 2023-2024 Good Thunder Reading Series is hosting its next event Thursday, Oct. 26, when writer Aruni Kashyap visits campus for a series of events.

All of the events are free and open to the public.

Oct. 26 schedule:

• 10-11 a.m. – Workshop, Memorial Library, First Floor, SW Corner.
• 3-3:50 p.m. – “Talk on Craft,” Centennial Student Union, Room 245. Books available for purchase.
• 7:30-8:15 p.m. – Chang will read from her work, Centennial Student Union, Ostrander Auditorium. Books available for purchase.

About the featured writer (courtesy of the Good Thunder Reading Series): Aruni Kashyap is the author of “His Father’s Disease: Stories” and the novel, “The House With a Thousand Stories.” Along with editing a collection of stories called “How to Tell the story of an Insurgency,” he has also translated two novels from Assamese to English, published by Zubaan Books and Penguin Random House. Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Faculty Research Grants in the Humanities and Arts Program, Arts Lab Faculty Fellowship, and the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing to the University of Edinburgh, his poetry collection, “There is No Good Time for Bad News,” was nominated for the 58th Georgia Author of the Year Awards 2022, a finalist for the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize, and Four Way Books Levis Award in Poetry. His short stories, poems and essays have appeared many publications. He also writes in Assamese and is the author of a novel called “Noikhon Etia Duroit,” and three novellas. He is an associate professor of English and creative writing and the director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Founded in 1981, the Good Thunder Reading Series brings nationally and internationally acclaimed writers from diverse backgrounds and literary traditions to Mankato, Minnesota, with the goal of promoting access to great literature, inspiring creativity and connections in our communities, and fostering lively conversations about how writers work and why writing matters.

The Good Thunder Reading Series is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

The 2023-24 Good Thunder Reading Series also receives support from Minnesota State Mankato’s Department of Creative Arts; College of Humanities and Social Sciences; Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; the Nadine B. Andreas Endowment, the Eddice B. Barber Visiting Writer Endowment, the Robert C. Wright Endowment and individual donors.

For more information or to get involved, contact Robin Becker, a creative writing faculty member at Minnesota State Mankato, at robin.becker@mnsu.edu, or visit gt.mnsu.edu.

Minnesota State Mankato, a comprehensive university with 14,482 students, is part of the Minnesota State system, which includes 26 colleges and seven universities.