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Brunch With Donald Hall @ Canal Club
February 9, 2003 @ Canal Club
Program:
- Nancy Travis read Mrs. Thing from The Ideal Bakery (North Point Press 1987).
- Tony Shaloub read The Accident from Willow Temple: New and Selected Stories (Houghton Mifflin 2003; story originally printed in The Ohio Review).
- Richard Schiff read The Ideal Bakery from Willow Temple: New and Selected Stories (Houghton Mifflin 2003; story first appeared in The Ohio Review; story reprinted in The Ideal Bakery, North Point Press 1987).
- Donald Hall read his narrative poem The Night of the Day from The Old Life (Houghton Mifflin 1996).
Produced and directed by Cedering Fox