Tuesday, November 8, 2011
A slew of events
Some day this will be a proper blog with actual entertaining content. In the meantime, readings!
This Thursday Anthony Doerr--who has won every conceivable prize for his short stories and is a wonderful writer--will be reading at the Joynes Reading Room this Thursday, November 10th, at 7PM.
Here is more information about the reading.
The Czech fiction writer, journalist, poet, and playwright Magdaléna Platzová will discuss her work at 6PM, Monday November 14th, at MEZ 1.208.
Wednesday, November 16th, at noon, The Schusterman Center is hosting Joseph Skibell, visitor at the Michener Center for Writers this semester, delivering a lecture entitled, "Heaven and Its Discontents: Spiritual Dramas of the Talmud." Everyone's welcome, but lunch is served, so RSVP by November 9th to Galt Pedahzur, galit@mail.utexas.edu.
(I was about to type, Please RSVP, but my need not to be redundant trumped my need not to appear rude.)
This Thursday Anthony Doerr--who has won every conceivable prize for his short stories and is a wonderful writer--will be reading at the Joynes Reading Room this Thursday, November 10th, at 7PM.
Here is more information about the reading.
The Czech fiction writer, journalist, poet, and playwright Magdaléna Platzová will discuss her work at 6PM, Monday November 14th, at MEZ 1.208.
Wednesday, November 16th, at noon, The Schusterman Center is hosting Joseph Skibell, visitor at the Michener Center for Writers this semester, delivering a lecture entitled, "Heaven and Its Discontents: Spiritual Dramas of the Talmud." Everyone's welcome, but lunch is served, so RSVP by November 9th to Galt Pedahzur, galit@mail.utexas.edu.
(I was about to type, Please RSVP, but my need not to be redundant trumped my need not to appear rude.)
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Justin Torres, Coleman Hutchison, Corinne Lee
Justin Torres, author of this year's deservedly much lauded We, the Animals, reads at Book People TONIGHT!
A Reuters piece on Torres.
The Weekend Edition review
An interview with Torres
And tomorrow, Wednesday, October 26th--Coleman Hutchison and Corinne Lee read from their poetry in the lovely, intimate, and nourishing noon reading series in the Atwood Library (Calhoun 300). Light lunch and poetry!
A Reuters piece on Torres.
The Weekend Edition review
An interview with Torres
And tomorrow, Wednesday, October 26th--Coleman Hutchison and Corinne Lee read from their poetry in the lovely, intimate, and nourishing noon reading series in the Atwood Library (Calhoun 300). Light lunch and poetry!
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Oscar Casares!
Oscar Casares, director of the English Department MFA Program and a hell of a writer, will give a reading this Thursday, October 20th, at 7:30PM in the Maloney Room in the Main Building at St. Edward's University, as part of their Visiting Writer Series.
A terrific piece by Casares on leaving his hometown, Brownsville (from Texas Monthly; registration free but required)
Casares recommending The Burning Plain and Other Stories for NPR's You Must Read This series
Casares's website
A terrific piece by Casares on leaving his hometown, Brownsville (from Texas Monthly; registration free but required)
Casares recommending The Burning Plain and Other Stories for NPR's You Must Read This series
Casares's website
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Bat City Returns
The next Bat City reading is here, featuring the excellent Sarah Saltwick and the marvelous Leanna Petronella.
Sarah is a playwriting & fiction Michener Fellow whose plays have been produced at UT, Bristol Riverside Theater, Shrewd Productions, and elsewhere. This will be her fiction reading debut!
Leanna is a poetry and fiction Michener Fellow whose poetry has appeared in Cutbank, La Petite Zine, and Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review.
The reading is at Tom's Tabooley (I always have to look up to see how Tom spells his tabooley) at 8PM on Monday, October 3rd.
Sarah is a playwriting & fiction Michener Fellow whose plays have been produced at UT, Bristol Riverside Theater, Shrewd Productions, and elsewhere. This will be her fiction reading debut!
Leanna is a poetry and fiction Michener Fellow whose poetry has appeared in Cutbank, La Petite Zine, and Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review.
The reading is at Tom's Tabooley (I always have to look up to see how Tom spells his tabooley) at 8PM on Monday, October 3rd.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Even More Readings
Holy cow, there are a lot of cool events at the University of Texas!
First: a cool event NOT at the University of Texas. Ben Markovits--an old pal of mine, a wonderful writer, and a native Austinite--is reading from the last novel in his Byron trilogy, Childish Loves (which The New Yorker calls an "elegant work of metafiction...full of provocative inquiries) at 7PM, Friday, September 30th, at Book People.
Markovits (who used to play professional basketball) in the Guardian on his hero, Michael Jordan.
An interview with Markovits in the Chronicle.
A splendid short story in The Paris Review.
Two other events tomorrow on campus:
The Brazil Center presents a talk by Brazilian writer Ana Maria Gonçalves, author of "Um defeito de cor" (A Color Defect), a novel about the Brazilian slave trade.
Time: Noon-1:30 p.m.
Location: Sid Richardson Hall (SRH), Hackett Room 1.313
The Science Study Break event features comics writer Jim Ottaviani discussing his graphic biography "Feynman," on the life of the noted Nobel laureate and nuclear physicist Richard Feynman. Cookies and chips available.
Time: 6-7 p.m.
Location: Welch Hall (WEL) 2.224
First: a cool event NOT at the University of Texas. Ben Markovits--an old pal of mine, a wonderful writer, and a native Austinite--is reading from the last novel in his Byron trilogy, Childish Loves (which The New Yorker calls an "elegant work of metafiction...full of provocative inquiries) at 7PM, Friday, September 30th, at Book People.
Markovits (who used to play professional basketball) in the Guardian on his hero, Michael Jordan.
An interview with Markovits in the Chronicle.
A splendid short story in The Paris Review.
Two other events tomorrow on campus:
The Brazil Center presents a talk by Brazilian writer Ana Maria Gonçalves, author of "Um defeito de cor" (A Color Defect), a novel about the Brazilian slave trade.
Time: Noon-1:30 p.m.
Location: Sid Richardson Hall (SRH), Hackett Room 1.313
The Science Study Break event features comics writer Jim Ottaviani discussing his graphic biography "Feynman," on the life of the noted Nobel laureate and nuclear physicist Richard Feynman. Cookies and chips available.
Time: 6-7 p.m.
Location: Welch Hall (WEL) 2.224
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Back!
It disturbs me that I thought this morning, If only I could update my blog my just thinking at the computer really hard! Ordinarily I have an appropriate anxiety about machines reading my mind.
Dale Rapley, part of the visiting the Actors from the London Stage troupe, will read from The Sea and the Mirror, Auden's gloss on The Tempest on Wednesday, September 28th, at noon.
A reel of Dale Rapley's clips at Vimeo.
Actors from the London Stage at the University of Texas
Dale Rapley, part of the visiting the Actors from the London Stage troupe, will read from The Sea and the Mirror, Auden's gloss on The Tempest on Wednesday, September 28th, at noon.
A reel of Dale Rapley's clips at Vimeo.
Actors from the London Stage at the University of Texas
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