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I had the pleasure today of seeing and hearing acclaimed and award-winning author Jeffrey Ford not once today, but twice! A prolific author in Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Mystery, Jeffrey Ford has written novels, such as The Shadow Year: A Novel, The Girl in the Glass : A Novel, and The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque : A Novel, along with collections of short stories, such as The Drowned Life (P.S.) and The Fantasy . . . → Read More: A lecture and reading by Jeffrey Ford 
Though you should be familiar with Beowulf, the 8th century Anglo-Saxon heroic epic that has influenced Western thought and storytelling for centuries, you’ve probably never read John Gardner’s Grendel–it’s Beowulf from Grendel’s perspective. This version is wonderful, not only because of the characterizations of Beowulf and the Dragon, but also because we view the Scyldings, Hrothgar’s Mead Hall, their wars, and even Beowulf himself, from an outsider’s perspective. Grendel struggles to find his . . . → Read More: Review: Grendel, by John Gardner |
 
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