Monday, April 12 at 8 p.m. in Memorial Hall, Old West
 
Tom Bailey teaches at the Writers Institute at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Grace That Keeps This World: A Novel, Cotton Song: A Novel, Crow Man, A Short Story Writer's Companion, and the editor of On Writing Short Stories. He is widely published in literary journals, magazines, and anthologies, he is the recipient of A Newhouse Award from the John Gardner Foundation. He received his Ph.D. from SUNY at Binghamton, MFA from University of Iowa and B.A. from Marshall University. The Belfer Reading Series brings notable writers and poets to Dickinson.

David Ball, assistant professor of English, is co-editor, along with Martha Kuhlman, of the new book from the University of Mississippi Press, The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is A Way of Thinking, a collection of essays by noted comics scholars like Jeet Heer about the seminal Acme cartoonist.
 
The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars about the comics of Chicago-based cartoonist Chris Ware (b. 1967). Both inside and outside academic circles, Ware's work is rapidly being distinguished as essential to the developing canon of the graphic novel. Winner of the 2001 Guardian First Book Prize for the genre-defining Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Ware has received numerous accolades from both the literary and comics establishment. This collection addresses the range of Ware's work from his earliest drawings in the 1990s in The ACME Novelty Library and his acclaimed Jimmy Corrigan, to his most recent works-in-progress, "Building Stories" and "Rusty Brown." David M. Ball is assistant professor of English at Dickinson College. His essays have appeared in ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance and Critical Matrix. Martha B. Kuhlman is associate professor of comparative literature at Bryant University. She has published in the Journal of Popular Culture, European Journal of Comic Art, and the International Journal of Comic Art.