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2011 Villanova Literary Festival

We are pleased to announce the schedule for the 13th annual Villanova Literary Festival, which will include a distinguished group of fiction writers and poets. The festival will begin on Tuesday, February 17th, with a reading by Monique Truong. Truong’s second novel, Bitter in the Mouth , was recently released by Random House. Her first novel, The Book of Salt , was a New York Times Notable Book. On February 17th Terrance Hayes will be reading his poetry. His most recent book, Lighthead (Penguin, 2010), has been short-listed for the 2010 National Book Award. On March 10th, novelist Colum McCann comes to the festival. McCann is the author of Let the Great World Spin , which won the 2009 National Book Award for fiction. His is also the bestselling author of the novels Zoli , Dancer , This Side of Brightness , and Songdogs , as well as two critically acclaimed story collections. On March 24th, poet Eleanor Wilner will read from her work. Wilner has published six collections o