Rice Cherry Reading Series: Maureen McLane

Brazos Book of the Month August 2010

Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain

The long-awaited follow-up to the megabestseller Kitchen Confidential.

In the ten years since his classic Kitchen Confidential first alerted us to the idiosyncrasies and lurking perils of eating out, from Monday fish to the breadbasket conspiracy, much has changed for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business—and for Anthony Bourdain.

Medium Raw explores these changes, moving back and forth from the author's bad old days to the present. Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-traveling professional eater and drinker, and even to fatherhood, Bourdain takes no prisoners as he dissects what he's seen, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food.

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Rice Cherry Reading Series: Maureen McLane

Start: February 12, 2010 - 7:00pm

End: February 12, 2010 - 8:30pm

Join us earlier in the day, at 4pm at Inprint House, 1520 West Main for a poetics talk by Maureen McLane ("Poetry is Dead, Long Live Poetry"). Then kick off your weekend with her reading at Brazos Bookstore, presented by the Rice Department of English and Fondren Library's Cherry Reading Series, and co-sponsored by the HRC Poetry and Poetics workshop.

Maureen McLane Maureen N. McLane grew up in upstate New York and was educated at Harvard, Oxford, and the University of Chicago. She is the author of two books of poems, World Enough (2010) and Same Life (2008), and a poetry chapbook, This Carrying Life (2005). She has also published two books of literary criticism: Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry (2008) and Romanticism and the Human Sciences (2000, 2006); she co-edited The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry (2008). A contributing editor at Boston Review, she was for years the chief poetry critic of the Chicago Tribune; her articles on poetry, contemporary fiction, and sexuality have appeared widely, including the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, Boston Review, the Washington Post, American Poet, and on the Poetry Foundation website.

In 2003 McLane won the National Book Critics Circle's Nona Balakian Award for Excellence in Book Reviewing; she was elected in 2007 for a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the NBCC. Currently an Associate Professor in the English Department at NYU, she has taught at Harvard, the University of Chicago, MIT, and the East Harlem Poetry Project.