Joseph Scapellato is the author of Big Lonesome, a story collection, and the forthcoming novel The Made-Up Man. Of the former, The New York Times Book Review wrote, “Vividly recasting many Western archetypes, Scapellato's inventive, hallucinatory prose dazzles.” His work has appeared in North American Review, Kenyon Review Online, Post Road and other publications and has been anthologized in Harper Perennial’s Forty Stories, Gigantic Books’ Gigantic Worlds: An Anthology of Science Flash Fiction and & NOW’s The Best Innovative Writing. Scapellato is an assistant professor of English at Bucknell University.
Refreshments will follow the reading.