A Launch Reading for “Saint Medusa”

On this occasion, colleagues and friends of the writer and teacher Peter Caputo will be gather to read from the newly published collection of his stories, Saint Medusa, and to recall a beloved member of the campus and literary community.

About the author: Peter J. Caputo (1950 – 2013) was Professor of English at Suffolk University in Boston for thirty-one years. His areas of expertise included 19th century English literature, history of the novel, classical mythology, and post-Jungian (archetypal) psychology. He was a finalist for the prestigious Peter Taylor Prize and semifinalist in the William Faulkner Competition for his unpublished novel, The Taletellers. At the time of his passing he was at work on a second novel.

This event is free and open to the public. Copies of the limited-edition hardcover press run of Saint Medusa will be available for purchase.

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Saint Medusa is being published by The Pen & Anvil Press, the independent press associated with the not-for-profit Boston Poetry Union. For more information about the collection, and to read selected stories, please visit http://www.penandanvil.com/saint-medusa.html.

A press sheet for Saint Medusa can be downloaded from http://files.meetup.com/122206/Saint-Medusa-press-sheet.pdf.

An audio recording of the author reading “Palimpsest and Exile”, from Caputo’s feature appearance in the multimedia journal Quiddity in August 2013, can be found online at http://quidditylit.tumblr.com/post/95196960506/peter-caputo-joins-us-for-this-weeks.