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
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