Author of Long Players: A Love Story in Eighteen Songs to Read at UT Scholar’s Symposium Nov. 2

On Friday, Nov. 2, The University of Tampa will welcome Peter Coviello, who will read from his new book, Long Players: A Love Story in Eighteen Songs, and discuss his process of turning painful experiences into art. The event, part of the University’s Scholar’s Symposia series, begins at 4 p.m. in the Scarfone/Hartley Gallery and is free and open to the public.

Described as a “passionate, heartfelt story about the many ways we fall in love,” Coviello’s new book follows his happy marriage, his blindsiding divorce, and his fumbling post-marital forays into sex and romance as he considers what keeps us alive and the grace of pop songs.

Coviello is a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he specializes in American literature and queer studies. He is the author of several books, including Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies and received an honorable mention for the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize, and Intimacy in America: Dreams of Affiliation in Antebellum Literature.

The event is sponsored by the UT Department of English and Writing. For more information, contact Sarah Lauro, assistant professor of English and director of the Scholar’s Symposia program, at slauro@ut.edu or (813) 257-3322.