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January 7, 2008
Literary Reading Series brings Indiana author, Colts fan to Purdue
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Cathy Day will read from and discuss her new memoir "Comeback Season: How I Learned to Play the Game of Love," at 7:30 p.m. in the Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall. The story, which will be published by Simon and Schuster's Free Press on Jan. 29, compares the obstacles of her love life with the wins and losses of the Indianapolis Colts.
Day, who earned her bachelor's degree from DePauw University and her master of fine arts degree from the University of Alabama, moved to Pittsburgh in 2005 to begin teaching in the University of Pittsburgh's graduate writing program. During that football season, the Colts' loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers sparked her real-life experiment "to get back in the game of love." The book chronicles the Colts' 2006 season that led to a Super Bowl championship, as well as her personal triumphs - getting in shape, quitting smoking and beginning to date again.
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Purdue assistant professor Bich Minh Nguyen, who is teaching a seminar in creative nonfiction this semester, calls Day's memoir, "a moving, funny and thoroughly absorbing account of one writer's quest for love. With frankness and verve, Cathy Day navigates online dating, location blues, and other hurdles that single professional women face. The result - at once a reckoning and a study of longings held and choices made - is an irresistible read."
Day also is the author of "The Circus in Winter," which was inspired by the tradition in her hometown of Peru, Ind., of housing circuses and circus performers during the offseason. The book was a Story Prize finalist, a Barnes & Noble Discover selection, an Original Voices pick at Borders and a Best Book of 2004 on Amazon.com.
Writer: Amy Patterson Neubert, (765) 494-9723, apatterson@purdue.edu
Sources: Bich Minh Nguyen, assistant professor of English, (765) 496-1651, nguyenb@purdue.edu
Porter Shreve, director of Creative Writing and an associate professor of English, (765) 496-1651, pshrev@purdue.edu
Daryll Lynne Evans, assistant director of Creative Writing, (765) 494-3783, boliviared@purdue.edu
Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu
Note to Journalists: Journalists interested in speaking with Day can contact her at (412) 715-7351, jdixianna@hotmail.com
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