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!

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

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.