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!
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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
Monday, September 19, 2011
Embarrassment of Riches
Tomorrow night!
Karen Tei Yamashita, author of five novels including last year's National Book Award finalist, I Hotel, reads September 20th, at 7PM, at the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center, The Connally Banquet Hall, at 2110 San Jacinto.
There's no better ad than this transfixing five minute reading at the Makeout Room in San Francisco.
An interview with Karen Tei Yamashita at Bookslut (one of my favorite book sites, if you can't tell).
Also! Nicole Krauss, author of Great House, reads from her work and speaks with Michener Center for Writers director James Magnuson at the Harry Ransom Center at 7PM.
There are lots of goodies, including audio interviews, at her beautifully designed website.
A PBS interview with Krauss at PBS.org
Karen Tei Yamashita, author of five novels including last year's National Book Award finalist, I Hotel, reads September 20th, at 7PM, at the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center, The Connally Banquet Hall, at 2110 San Jacinto.
There's no better ad than this transfixing five minute reading at the Makeout Room in San Francisco.
An interview with Karen Tei Yamashita at Bookslut (one of my favorite book sites, if you can't tell).
Also! Nicole Krauss, author of Great House, reads from her work and speaks with Michener Center for Writers director James Magnuson at the Harry Ransom Center at 7PM.
There are lots of goodies, including audio interviews, at her beautifully designed website.
A PBS interview with Krauss at PBS.org
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Bat City Reading Series Begins!
Monday night is the first of the Bat City readings. This year the readings will be held at Tom's Tabooley at 2928 Guadalupe. If you like excellent literature and bulgur wheat, you're in luck. (You're in luck even if you don't like bulgur wheat.)
This Monday, September 19th, at 8PM, the series presents Michener Center for Writers Fellows Claire Sylvester Smith, a poet whose work has won the Hopwood Award from the University of Michigan, and Ben Roberts, whose fiction has been published in the Harvard Review and Quarterly West.
The Bat City Review website.
Unstuck, the new annual of speculative fiction (Ben Roberts is an assistant editor).
Two readings coming up by two wonderful fiction writers on Tuesday, Karen Tei Yamashita and Nicole Krauss.
This Monday, September 19th, at 8PM, the series presents Michener Center for Writers Fellows Claire Sylvester Smith, a poet whose work has won the Hopwood Award from the University of Michigan, and Ben Roberts, whose fiction has been published in the Harvard Review and Quarterly West.
The Bat City Review website.
Unstuck, the new annual of speculative fiction (Ben Roberts is an assistant editor).
Two readings coming up by two wonderful fiction writers on Tuesday, Karen Tei Yamashita and Nicole Krauss.
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