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Join us for a conversation with Chip Martin, sharing his views on the tradition of American literary expatriation in Europe, about which he has written and taught extensively. He'll touch on his work and in particular his affinity for the form of the 'blest nouvelle', as Henry James called it.

About Chip Martin

Chip Martin was born in Philadelphia, grew up in California and has lived largely in London since 1973. He is the author of more than a dozen interlinked novellas and, as Stoddard Martin, of five books of literary and cultural criticism. He has been a social worker, a wood merchant, a layer of irrigation pipeline, a professor of college English on U.S. warships, a teacher of writing at Harvard and a lecturer in literature at Oxford and at Warsaw Universities. He has a degree in history from Stanford and a Ph.D. in English from the University of London, where he retains a visiting fellowship.

In the 1980s, he edited Avantgarde and Status UK magazines; his reviews and articles have appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, San Diego Union, Jewish Chronicle and elsewhere. He served for many years on the management committee of English PEN. He is sole proprietor of the small press Starhaven, which received the Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Poetry Book of 2008 for Poems from Dry Creek by John Dofflemyer.