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Missionaries, zealots. Proselytists! Please leave me. I would be alone. Peddle your picture Bibles elsewhere. I am content to dance my heathen dances and sharpen my weapons on stones. –Everyone’s Pretty


November 2025

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11.05 | Vassar College

EVENT: William Gifford Lecture
LOCATION: Sanders Auditorium (Sanders Classroom 212), 8 Sunset Lake, Poughkeepsie, NY

The Vassar English Department and the Gifford Fund for writers-in-residence has invited Lydia deliver the 2025 William Gifford Lecture.

This event is free and open to the public.

Interested in booking Lydia Millet?

For all speaking engagements (virtual and in person), please contact Dawn Stuart here.

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