Reading and craft talk with Anthony D'Aries, author of the memoir The Language of Men. His fiction and nonfiction has appeared in McSweeney's, Boston Magazine, Solstice, Shelf Awareness, The Literary Review, Memoir Magazine, Silk Road Review, The Laurel Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, and elsewhere. He has served on the board of PEN/New England as a member of the Freedom-to-Write Committee, leading writing workshops in prisons, shelters, hospitals, and residential care facilities, and co-chairing the inaugural PEN Writing and Trauma Conference. An Associate Professor of writing and literature, Anthony directs the low-residency MFA in Creative and Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University.