The Dire Literary Series hosts Kathleen Spivack, Lawrence Kessenich, and Zvi Sesling. Kathleen Spivack's most recent novel is UNSPEAKABLE THINGS (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016), which centers on European refugees in New York City struggling to survive during the last year of the second World War. She is also the author of WITH ROBERT LOWELL AND HIS CIRCLE (University Press of New […]
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