AUTHOR RS DEEREN VISITS VICKSBURG DISTRICT LIBRARY
The Vicksburg District Library is hosting RS Deeren, author of “Enough to Lose”, on Thursday, June 20, at 6:00pm in the library’s Lower Level as part of the Library of Michigan’s 2024 Michigan Notable Books Author Tour. This event is free. No registration is required. However, if you would like to signal your intent to attend, you can do so on our Facebook event page.
The event will include a reading by RS Deeren, a brief interview, questions from the audience, and a book signing.
You can buy “Enough to Lose” from Gilbert and Ivy before the event at the bookstore and immediately afterward in the library. A limited number of copies is available in the library’s collection.
The Vicksburg District Library is located at 215 S. Michigan Avenue in Vicksburg, Michigan. The telephone number is (269) 649-1648. You may email John, Circulation and Reference Librarian, if you have any questions.
Gilbert and Ivy, an independent bookstore, is located at 100 South Main Street in Vicksburg, Michigan. You can contact them at (269) 475-5747.
You can find more information about the Michigan Notable Books program on the Library of Michigan’s website.
2024 MICHIGAN NOTABLE BOOKS AUTHOR TOUR
This year, 13 authors whose engaging works were chosen as 2024 Michigan Notable Books will visit 50 sites throughout the state.
The Michigan Notable Books (MNB) program is designed to promote reading the reading of Michigan authors and stories by annually selecting 20 titles that best reflect the diverse ethnic, historical, literary, and cultural experiences in the state. “Michigan truly is a mosaic of inspiration for writers. Each MNB selection offers a unique touchpoint into the rich stories and beautiful landscape of our great state. Everyone will find something of interest that speaks to the voices and experiences of what it means to be a Michigander” said State Librarian Randy Riley.
The 2024 Michigan Notable Books program and Author Tour are made possible thanks to the generous support of the Library of Michigan, the Library of Michigan Foundation, and Michigan Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For additional sponsors, please visit the Library of Michigan Foundation’s website at www.LibraryofMichiganFoundation.org.
RS DEEREN
RS Deeren is the author of Enough to Lose: Stories. He received his MFA from Columbia College Chicago and his PhD from the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee. He was the 2016 Union League Club of Chicago Library’s Writer in Residence and a 2015 Luminarts Cultural Foundation Creative Writing Fellow. The title story to Enough to Lose has been anthologized in Tales of Two Americas edited by John Freeman. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry appears in The Great Lakes Review, Joyland, Midwestern Gothic, and elsewhere. He is from rural Michigan, where he worked as a line cook, a substitute teacher, a landscaper, a banker, and a lumberjack. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee.
ENOUGH TO LOSE: STORIES
In nine captivating short stories, R.S. Deeren presents a vivid portrait of life in the rural Thumb region of Michigan. With unflinching empathy, Deeren weaves together the colorful lives of landscapers, hunters, artists, parolees, retirees, and entrepreneurs, characters who reckon with their relationship to this unique slice of Michigan. Deeren artfully illustrates the brutal realities of working-class rural life that are punctuated by moments of beauty, humor, and resilience.
