Novelist Dana Spiotta Due

Back In County For Lecture

COOPERSTOWN – Dana Spiotta, whose novel “Eat the Document” was a National Book Award finalist while she was co-proprietor the Rose & Kettle restaurant in Cherry Valley, will be back in Otsego County at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 4, to give a talk at the Village Library of Cooperstown.

Spiotta is the author of three other novels, “Innocents and Others” (2016), winner of the St. Francis College Literary Prize and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; “Stone Arabia” (2011), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and her first, “Lightning Field” (2001).

She has also won a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize in Literature. In 2017 she received the John Updike Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches in the Syracuse University Creative Writing Program.

The program is free of charge and open to the public. In addition to the Sunday Afternoon series, the Friends of the Village Library sponsors archaeology workshops for children and raises funds to benefit the Village Library of Cooperstown. The Friends Winter Book Sale will be held on February 10 and 11 as part of the Cooperstown Winter Carnival.