Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Seven Bar Jokes About Grammar and Punctuation

A fine list from McSweeneys.net

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 playwrighMagdaléna 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.)