Mark Farrington Book Release

About this event

The Writer’s Center welcomes writer and longtime Johns Hopkins professor Mark Farrington for a reading from his new novel LOSS OF LIFE and discussion of fiction techniques with former student and author Michelle Brafman. FREE & open to the public. RSVP below. Mark Farrington recently retired after teaching thirty years in the Johns Hopkins University MA in Writing Program, including time spent as director of the program as well as director of the MA in Teaching Writing Program. He has published short fiction in CARVE, Craft Literary, The Valparaiso Review, and other journals, along with various articles on writing and the teaching of writing. Loss of Life is his first novel. After living for three decades in Alexandria, Virginia, following his retirement he and his wife moved to Portland, Maine. Learn more at markfarrington.net. Michelle Brafman is the author of Washing the Dead, Bertrand Court, and Swimming with Ghosts, the companion novel to Draw Near to Me. Her work has appeared in Oprah Daily, O Quarterly, Slate, LitHub, Tablet, The Forward, and elsewhere. She’s taught fiction writing in the Johns Hopkins University MA in Writing Program and spoken about her work and the creative process at more than 200 venues, including book stores, literary festivals, classrooms, synagogues, and myriad book groups. Learn more at michellebrafman.com. About LOSS OF LIFE In a Virginia hospital, forty-one-year-old Matthew Winton awakens from a car accident with no memory of his life after the age of thirteen. Over time, he learns that he is a college professor who lives alone and has no family. He is also a writer, and he turns first to his writing, hoping it will show him his past. But he has written primarily fiction, and he struggles to separate the blurred lines between fiction and fact. He is helped by a policewoman who investigated his accident, and a relationship develops. Then he comes upon something he’d written shortly before the crash. This writing disturbs him…