Exhibit X Fiction presents poet and essayist Christine Hume with fiction writer Christina Milletti for book launches of Everything I Never Wanted to Know and The Girling Season.

CHRISTINE HUME’S fifth book is a collection of essays on two despised topics in America, sex offenders and women’s bodies, Everything I Never Wanted to Know (Ohio State University Press, 21^st Century Essays Series). The LA Review of Books says this book is “mesmerizingly articulate;” Kirkus Review calls it a “thoughtfully disturbing, sharp sociological study;” Publishers Weekly describes it as a “dauntless and harrowing indictment of patriarchal violence;” and Booklist characterizes the prose as “compelling, erudite and unapologetic essays firmly based in feminism.” Hume is also the author of a lyric portrait of girlhood, Saturation Project (Solid Objects, 2021), which The New York Times says, “arrives with the force of a hurricane,” as well as three collections of poetry and several chapbooks. Recent prose appears in Harper’s, The Boston Review, Architecture and Culture, Conjunctions, Disabilities Studies Quarterly, and other venues. Since 2001, she has been faculty in the Creative Writing program at Eastern Michigan University. More writing by Christine Hume: https://christinehume.com/

CHRISTINA MILLETTI’S novel Choke Box: a Fem-Noir won the Juniper Prize for Fiction from the University of Massachusetts Press. Her fiction, articles, and reviews have appeared in many journals and anthologies, such as Best New American Voices, the Iowa Review, The Master’s Review, Denver Quarterly, The Cincinnati Review, Studies in the Novel, Zeta, the Brooklyn Rail and the Buffalo News (among other places). She is an Associate Professor of English at the University at Buffalo where she is currently the Interim Director of UB’s Humanities Institute. She recently won the Patron’s Prize from Thornwillow Press who published her winning short story, “The Girling Season,” in a special letterpress chapbook edition. It is one of the stories in her new collection called Now You See Her which she will be working on completing at Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts in June.

More writing by Christina Milletti: www.christinamilletti.com

Transportation from UB North Campus to Hallwalls is available.

Stampede Bus will take students from Flint Loop (outside Capen) at 5:00 pm to Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue Buffalo, NY) and pick up students at Hallwalls at 8:00pm and return them to Campus. The bus will say UB CHARTER or HALLWALLS to distinguish from other Stampede buses.

TRANSPORTATION: 5:00pm from Flint Loop, 8:00 pm return to campus (details below)

SALON: 5:45-6:45 pm (Hallwalls Gallery, above the Cinema)

READING: 7:00pm (Hallwalls Cinema)