a series in which writers are paired with artists from other
disciplines in order to share their work. Each evening includes
readings, conversations, and surprising links between the arts.
The September 15th Text and ConText will feature Elain Clayton and
Somerville resident N.S. Koenings. (Bios appear below...)
Date: September 15, 2008
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown
(accessible by MBTA 70/70A bus)
Fee: $0 ... Free and open to the Public.
Somerville resident N.S. Koenings teaches fiction writing at
Hampshire College. Her short stories have appeared in Story Quarterly
and Glimmer Train. Reviewed favorably in the New York Times and The
New Yorker, her first novel, The Blue Taxi, was published by Little,
Brown and is set in the fictional East African city of Vunjamguu in
the 1970's. The Blue Taxi looks at the legacy of Empire, neighbors,
prophecy, love affairs, secrets, embroidery and the black market.
Theft, published by Little, Brown (2008), includes five short stories
and features spirit mediums, boys on motorbikes, Indian Ocean djinn,
Belgian archaeologists, Kenyan bus touts, American tourists, drag
queens, and young and old women on the loose. She has also
published work on Tanzanian politics and expressive culture, worked
as a consultant to NGOs and the State Department, and carried out
fact finding missions in Africa for Human Rights Watch.
Elaine Clayton is an artist, writer and illustrator. Her children's
books include Ella's Trip To The Museum, The Yeoman's Daring Daughter
and The Princes in the Tower, and A Blue Ribbon For Sugar. Her first
book, Pup In School, was written and illustrated while teaching at
the Atrium School in Watertown. In addition, she has illustrated many
books including The Hamlet Chronicles (a series) by Gregory Maguire,
Girl Coming in for a Landing by April Wayland, and 42 Miles by Tracie
Vaughn Zimmer. She is also a muralist whose work can be seen online
at elaineclayton.com. While born in a very small town in the
Panhandle of Texas a few blocks off Route 66, she has since moved to
Kansas, then Georgia, and north to Boston and is currently living in
Westport, Connecticut.
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