Road Trip to Grand Forks?

Salman Rushdie will speak at the University of North Dakota as part of its upcoming Annual Writers Conference, to be held March 25 to 29. Rushdie's talk will be at 7 p.m. on March 25 in Chester Fritz Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.

Beyond the controversial novelist, UND's conference has quite the starpacked lineup this year. Other authors scheduled to appear include Russell Banks, Junot Diaz, Alexandra Fuller, and Alice Fulton. (Amiri Baraka, previously schedule to appear, will not be attending, after a controversy over a poem he wrote about the attacks of September 11.) Details of the conference are here.--David E