Senior student art exhibited in Conley Gallery
A Studio Arts Senior Exhibition will be held in the Conley Gallery of the Phebe Conley Art Building from May 2 to May 15. The Gallery is open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays and 2-5 p.m. Sundays. A reception is scheduled 5-8 p.m. Thursday, May 7. Call the Department of Art and Design at 278-2515, for details.
Laughing Stock concludes semester theater schedule
Laughing Stock by Charles Morey is the semester-ending University Theatre production, with performances May 8 to 16, in the John Wright Theatre. Directed by Kathleen McKinley, the play takes a look at the hectic and sometimes hilarious aspects of backstage life. The Salt Lake Tribune writes that the play shows how "a summer stock production of Dracula disintegrates into chaos on opening night. Gothic horror becomes high comedy amid misplaced technical cues, forgotten lines, wrong entrances and eccentric acting ... the large audience howled with glee as they watched the mayhem unfold." For tickets, call the box office at 278-2216. The box office, located at the North Entrance of the Speech Arts Building, is open Monday - Friday, noon to 4 p.m.
 Collection of Saroyan's works available from The Press
The Press at Fresno State, in collaboration with the Fresno Bee and Fresno County Public Library, has brought together in a range of works from Saroyan’s early years, in Young Saroyan - Follow and Other Early Writings by William Saroyan. This book includes letters and unpublished short stories from the author’s archive at Stanford University.
Collected for the first time are some of the unjustly neglected gems of Saroyan’s early work – including Follow, a gripping autobiographical novella published for the first time in 2008 by the Fresno Bee to mark the writer’s centennial year. It tells the story of a young man from Fresno who hungers for success as a writer in New York – but learns some bitter lessons.
William Saroyan was an undiscovered author in the early 1930s, but the Armenian-American writer from Fresno vaulted to fame with “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze.” That 1934 short story collection launched a dazzling literary career that later brought Saroyan a Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award.
 Two-year subscriptions available for The Normal School
The Normal School, named after Fresno State when it was a state normal school in 1911, is offering a two-year subscription (four issues) for $20 each. The Normal School is a cultural magazine for the avid reader. Packed with memoir, New Yorker-style narrative journalism, short fiction, cultural criticism, and a dash of poetry, it is published bi-annually, spring and fall. Submissions are accepted from the public. Among the inaugural issue’s writers were a Pulitzer Prize winner, a New York Times bestselling author, Pen Award finalists, Harper’s magazine contributing editors and a Guggenheim Fellowship winner. For more information, contact swchurch@gmail.com. Issues are $5 at the newsstand. Back issues are $7 each. Subscriptions can be purchased at thenormalschool.com.
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