UCA Writer Reads Tonight at Library

Mark Spitzer will read from the latest installment of his Bohemian memoir, "After the Orange Glow," today at 7 p.m. in the Faulkner County Library.

Spitzer is an assistant professor in the Department of Writing and teaches creative writing. He also is the editor-in-chief of the "Toad Suck Review" literary journal when's he's not out promoting the conservation of the alligator gar.

In his memoir, Spitzer recounts the spontaneous, passionate, raucous, and sometimes ludicrous lifestyle of expatriate poets and writers living and working in a legendary Paris bookstore. He portrays a behind-the-scences look at his life and those of the Beat poets who shaped the literary style of a generation.

"Mark Spritzer has written a humping, yowling, spewing, brow-beating memoir about his ... crackling youth spent in Paris at George's Whitman's Shakespeare & Co., an historic and histronic wacky crash-pad bookstore," said Elva Beach, author of "Neurotica."

Louis Alberto Urrea, author of  "Into the Beautiful North," added, "You will not find another like him. He is the most dedicated writer I know."

"After the Orange Glow" is the first of the series of four memoirs that are being published out of sequence. The third in the series, "Writer in Residence" (University of New Orleans Press), was published last year. Spitzer read from it last year at the Faulkner County Library.

After the reading, there will be a question-and-answer session followed by a book signing. Copies of "After the Orange Glow" will be available.

The event is free and open to the public.

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