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CORVALLIS, Ore. - New York Times best-selling author Tom Barbash will speak on Friday, Nov. 11, at 3 p.m. in the Willamette Room on the third floor of the Valley Library on the Oregon State University campus. Barbash will give a talk titled "Fiction and Nonfiction - Moving Between Forms."

The OSU Department of English and the Creative Writing Program are co-sponsors of the event, which is free and open to the public. The talk will discuss the process of structuring novels and books of narrative nonfiction and how each process informs the other.

Barbash is the author of "The Last Good Chance," a novel that won the California Book Award and the James Michener Award. He also wrote "On Top of the World," a New York Times best-seller that examines the media scrutiny surrounding Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick in the wake of the company's tragic losses in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Barbash also has published short stories and regularly writes book reviews for the San Francisco Chronicle. Last year he received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

For more information on Barbash's talk, contact the Department of English at 541-737-3244.