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Lauren
Groff
Ada
Limón
Gregory
Pardlo
Ann
Patchett
Annie
Proulx
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igned copy of Jonathan Safran Foer’s new novel
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Here I Am, available for pick up at the reading. Those
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Jonathan
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Colm
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Juan Gabriel
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Dear
Friends,
One thing I am grateful for, particularly in a political season, is a
compelling story or poem that, by its very nature, will not be reduced
to platitude or hyperbole. All the more reason to keep reading.
There are other reasons. I love Kafka’s admonition (in a letter to
a friend) that “a book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
The best literary works tend to reach into us and rearrange our inner
lives. We experience the world from another point of view and work to
accommodate meanings that enlarge us, if we’re lucky.
Thus we are proud that for 35 years, together, we have built a reading
series here in Houston which is the equal of any in the nation and
keeps us on our toes. Season 36 is no exception, with a diverse roster
of ten extraordinary writers, most of whom will present new works
that we hope will delight you. We are also thrilled to be back at the
beautifully renovated Alley Theatre for most of the readings.
Thank you as always for joining us in the journey. We anticipate our
further adventures, plumbing the joys and mysteries of the written
word. See you at the readings.
Cheers,
Rich Levy
Executive Director
Inprint
Margarett Root Brown
Reading Series
2016/2017
All readings take place
on Monday nights at 7:30 pm.
Doors open at 6:45 pm.
Readings are followed by
an on-stage interview,
a book sale, and book signing.
September 19, 2016
October 17, 2016
January 23, 2017
March 6, 2017
Jonathan
Safran Foer
Lauren Groff +
Ann Patchett
Annie
Proulx
George
Saunders
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501 Texas Avenue
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Cullen Theater, Wortham Center
501 Texas Avenue
Alley Theatre
615 Texas Avenue
November 21, 2016
April 3, 2017
May 8, 2017
Rabih
Alameddine +
Juan Gabriel
Vásquez
Ada Limón +
Gregory Pardlo
Colm
Tóibín
Alley Theatre
615 Texas Avenue
Alley Theatre
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Alley Theatre
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each of the readings, plus parking passes, a signed book, and other
benefits. Check the back flap for details.
General Admission Tickets
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featured books by the authors appearing in the series. Receive
starting at 6:45 pm, if the reading is not already sold out. Check
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on availability of free tickets closer to each reading. Requests
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Jonathan
Safran Foer
Jeff Mermelstein
Monday, September 19, 2016
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER burst onto the literary scene in 2002 with his
debut novel Everything Is Illuminated. “Not since Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork
Orange has the English language been simultaneously mauled and energized
with such brilliance and brio,” wrote Francine Prose in The New York Times. The
novel, which was made into a feature film, won The Guardian First Book Prize and
the National Jewish Book Award. His second novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly
Close—also made into an Oscar-nominated film—became an international
bestseller. Foer comes to Houston on a limited tour to share his highly anticipated
new novel Here I Am. Showcasing the high-energy inventiveness, irreverence, and
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emotional urgency of his previous work (with a harder edge), The New York Times
says the novel “unfolds over a single month in present-day Washington, as a
Jewish family with three sons falls apart after the parents’ marriage falters.” Foer
is “one of the few contemporary writers willing to risk sentimentalism to address
great questions of truth, love, and beauty” (Publishers Weekly). Joyce Carol Oates
says, “He will win your admiration, and he will break your heart.” His books have
been translated into more than 35 languages, and he is also author of Eating
General admission tickets $5
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Animals (nonfiction) and The New American Haggadah (with Nathan Englander),
and editor of an anthology of fiction and poetry inspired by the works of Joseph
Cornell, A Convergence of Birds.
LAUREN GROFF is, according to James Wood in The New Yorker, “an original
writer whose books are daringly nonconformist.” Her latest novel, the New York
Times bestseller Fates and Furies, was a finalist for the National Book Award
Monday, October 17, 2016
and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was named a Best Book of
2015 by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, and others. The San Francisco Chronicle
calls Fates and Furies “a delirious, exhilarating, and heartbreaking ride through
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the decades of one fable-like marriage.” Groff’s other two critically acclaimed
novels are the New York Times Notable Book Arcadia and the Orange Prize for
New Writers finalist The Monsters of Templeton, called “fabulously inventive…
extracting characters from classic novels, adding two cups of history, a quart of
imagination, and stirring vigorously” (The Christian Science Monitor). She is also
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the author of the story collection Delicate Edible Birds.
Megan Brown
Heidi Ross
ANN PATCHETT, on Time’s 2012 “100 Most Influential People in the World” list,
is author of Bel Canto, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award and Orange Prize, was
a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and sold more than a million
copies. Her other works include the novels The Patron Saint of Liars, The Magician’s
Assistant, Run, and State of Wonder; the essay collection This Is the Story of a Happy
Marriage; and Truth and Beauty: A Friendship, named one of the Best Books of the
Year by the Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, and Entertainment Weekly.
Patchett will read from her new novel Commonwealth, which Publishers Weekly
calls “a funny, sad, and ultimately heart-wrenching family portrait…. Patchett
elegantly manages a varied cast of characters as alliances and animosities ebb
and flow, cross-country and over time.” She is co-owner of Parnassus Books in
Nashville and a staunch advocate for independent bookstores.
Lauren
Groff
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Ann
Patchett
Monday, November 21, 2016
Rabih
Alameddine
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Juan Gabriel
Vásquez
Benito Ordonez
Hermance Triay
RABIH ALAMEDDINE, “master of the non-linear narrative” (The Guardian),
is according to Michael Chabon, “one of our most daring writers.” His novel An
Unnecessary Woman, which The New York Times called “beautiful and absorbing …
a meditation on, among other things, aging, politics, literature, loneliness, grief
and resilience,” was a finalist for both the National Book Award and National
Book Critics Circle Award, and on “best book” lists for The Washington Post, NPR,
and The Christian Science Monitor. He is also author of The Hakawati, Koolaids,
and I, the Divine, and the story collection The Perv. He will read from his new
novel The Angel of History, which tells the story of a Yemeni poet who, with the
help of Satan, Death, and 14 angels, looks back on his past in Cairo, Beirut, and
San Francisco during the AIDS epidemic.
JUAN GABRIEL VÁSQUEZ is one of Latin America’s leading writers. His
international bestseller The Sound of Things Falling, which Booklist called “a
masterpiece,” won the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the
Alfaguara Novel Prize, and the English PEN Award. In the novel, which looks back
on Columbia’s drug war, “Vásquez creates characters whose memories resonate
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powerfully across an ingeniously interlocking structure” (The New Republic). His
other works in English include The Informers, The Secret History of Costaguana,
and the story collection Lovers on All Saints’ Day. He has translated the works of
John Hersey, Victor Hugo, and E. M. Forster into Spanish, and his own work has
General admission tickets $5
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been published in 28 languages. He will read from his novel Reputations, coming
out in the U.S. in September. Told from the point of view of an aging, legendary
political cartoonist, Library Journal calls it “a reverberant new work about a life
suddenly challenged... [The] response has been ecstatic.”
Gus Powell
Monday, January 23, 2017
ANNIE PROULX is one of the most respected authors of our time. The Boston
Globe writes, “Few writers feel equally at home in the novel and the short story,” and
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution says, “Proulx goes where few others would.” Her
novel The Shipping News made her an international celebrity in the 1990s, winning
the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Irish Times International
Fiction Prize. USA Today described it as “alive, funny, a little threatening; packed
with brilliantly original images... and, now and then, a sentence that simply takes
your breath away.” Her story “Brokeback Mountain,” which originally appeared
in The New Yorker and won O. Henry and National Magazine Awards, was made
Annie
Proulx
into an Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning film. Her other works include the
PEN/Faulkner Award-winning Postcards, The New Yorker Book Award-winning
Close Range: Wyoming Stories, and Bird Cloud: A Memoir. Proulx comes to Houston
to share her latest novel Barkskins, a saga which, with its vivid cast of characters
spanning 300 years, serves as “a memorable plea against deforestation,” according
to the Houston Chronicle. Booklist writes, in a starred review, “Proulx’s signature
passion and concern for nature…charge[s] this rigorously researched, intrepidly
imagined, complexly plotted, and vigorously written multigenerational epic….
nothing less than a sylvan Moby-Dick.” Publishers Weekly calls it “a monumental
achievement, one that will perhaps be remembered as her finest work.”
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Chloe Aftel
Monday, March 6, 2017
GEORGE SAUNDERS is “an essential literary figure for our time,” according
to The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal writes, “It’s no exaggeration
George
Saunders
to say that short story master George Saunders helped change the trajectory of
American fiction.” His collection Tenth of December, winner of The Story Prize
and the Folio Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Award and named one
of The New York Times “10 Best Books of 2013.” “No one writes more powerfully
than George Saunders about the lost, the unlucky, the disenfranchised…. It’s a
measure of Mr. Saunders’s talents as a writer — his brassy language, narrative
instincts, bone-deep understanding of his characters — that he takes what might
have been a contrived and sentimental parable and turns it into a visceral and
moving act of storytelling” (The New York Times). His other works include the
New York Times Notable Books Pastoralia and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, In
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Persuasion Nation, and Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness.
He will read from his new work Lincoln in the Bardo, his first novel, which comes
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out in February. Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night and
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Lincoln’s eleven-year-old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War. Saunders, a
narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, the story is about the death of Abraham
MacArthur “genius” fellow, was named one of Time’s 2013 “100 Most Influential
People in the World.”
Monday, April 3, 2017
“ADA LIMÓN’s power is in speaking plainly, giving her ideas enough space to
breathe, and ending poems with potent last lines,” says Front Porch. Her most
recent poetry collection Bright Dead Things was a finalist for the 2015 National
Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, and one of The New York
Times “Top Ten Poetry Books of the Year.” Library Journal calls it “generous
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of heart, intricate and accessible... wondrous and deeply moving,” and the
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Washington Independent Review of Books writes, “This is poetry alive with
exuberance and exciting moments.... Good spirited and dynamic… poems with
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buoyancy and integrity.” Her other poetry collections include Lucky Wreck,
winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize; This Big Fake World, winner of the
Pearl Poetry Prize; and Sharks in the River. Limón’s work has appeared in The New
Yorker, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere.
Ada
Limón
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Gregory
Pardlo
Jude Domski
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
GREGORY PARDLO’s poems, according to The Washington Spectator, “deftly
evoke sociology, jazz, philosophy, African-American lit, Russian cinema, Greek
mythology, European travel, film noir, hip hop, and a host of other topics.” His
second collection, Digest, won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize, was shortlisted for the
NAACP Image Award, and was a finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award.
The New York Times describes Digest as “a brainy, compassionate book that uses a
pleasingly large stylistic palette to paint a portrait of fatherhood, racial politics,
and Brooklyn before it became a place to buy $30 glasses of bourbon.” Pardlo’s
first poetry collection Totem was selected by Brenda Hillman for the American
Poetry Review/Honickman Prize. He is translator of Niels Lyngsø’s Pencil of Rays
and Spiked Mace: Selected Poems, and his work has appeared in the Boston Review,
The Nation, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Pardlo’s memoir-in-essays Air Traffic is
forthcoming from Knopf.
Brigitte Lacombe
Monday, May 8, 2017
COLM TÓIBÍN “is an immensely gifted and accomplished writer who has
covered a remarkable range of subjects,” writes Jonathan Yardley in The
Washington Post, and the Independent says, “It is impossible to read Tóibín
without being moved, touched and finally changed.” Three times shortlisted for
the Man Booker Prize, the internationally celebrated Irish writer has received
critical acclaim for his novels, short stories, nonfiction works, plays, and poetry.
His eight novels include The Blackwater Lightship, made into a feature film;
The Master, about Henry James, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
and Dublin IMPAC Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award and made
into an Oscar-nominated film; The Testament of Mary, which Tóibín adapted
for the Broadway stage; and Nora Webster, winner of the Hawthornden Prize
Colm
Tóibín
and described as “heart-rendingly transcendent” by The New York Times. About
Brooklyn, The New Yorker says, “Tóibín creates a narrative of remarkable power….
[and] leaves us with a renewed understanding that to emigrate is to become
a foreigner in two places at once.” He is also author of the story collections
Mothers and Sons and The Empty Family and several nonfiction books, including
recently New Ways to Kill Your Mother and On Elizabeth Bishop. His work has been
translated into more than 30 languages. His forthcoming novel House of Names, a
retelling of the legend of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, comes out in May 2017.
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Alice Adams
Denis Johnson Charles Johnson Mat Johnson Edward P. Jones Donald Justice
Mary Karr Richard Katrovas Janet Kauffman Brigit Pegeen Kelly Tracy Kidder
Jamaica Kincaid Maxine Hong Kingston Galway Kinnell Carolyn Kizer Kenneth Koch
Yusef Komunyakaa Nicole Krauss Maxine Kumin Stanley Kunitz Hari Kunzru
Tony Kushner Jhumpa Lahiri Chang‑rae Lee Li‑Young Lee Jonathan Lethem
Philip Levine
Phillip Lopate
Barry Lopez
Beverly Lowry
Lois Lowry
Dorianne Laux Tom Lux Cynthia Macdonald Norman Manea Dionisio Martinez
Ruben Martinez
Bobbie Ann Mason
William Matthews
Peter Matthiessen
Gail Mazur David Mitchell James McBride Colum McCann Elizabeth McCracken
Kim Addonizio
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Daniel Alarcón
Alice McDermott
Heather McHugh
Jay McInerney
Reginald McKnight
Edward Albee Elizabeth Alexander Sherman Alexie Julia Alvarez Yehuda Amichai
Terrence McNally Sandra McPherson James Merrill W. S. Merwin Leonard Michaels
Roger Angell Max Apple Rae Armantrout Margaret Atwood Toni Cade Bambara
Adrienne Leslie Miller Czeslaw Milosz Susan Mitchell Mayra Montero Rick Moody
Russell Banks
Andrea Barrett
Lorrie Moore Mary Morris Walter Mosley Howard Moss Taha Muhammad Ali
Donald Barthelme Charles Baxter Ann Beattie Marvin Bell Diane Gonzales Bertrand
Bharati Mukherjee Paul Muldoon Harryette Mullen Alice Munro Jack Myers
Frank Bidart Chana Bloch Amy Bloom Robert Bly Eavan Boland Robert Boswell
Antonya Nelson Marilyn Nelson Naomi Shihab Nye Téa Obreht Edna O’Brien
T. C. Boyle David Bradley Lucie Brock‑Broido Geraldine Brooks Olga Broumas
Tim O’Brien
Rosellen Brown
Alicia Ostriker Helen Oyeyemi Ron Padgett Grace Paley Orhan Pamuk Ann Patchett
John Banville
Coleman Barks
Dennis Brutus
Julian Barnes
Bill Bryson
Frederick Busch
A. S. Byatt
Sharon Olds
Mary Oliver
Molly Peacock
Oscar Casares
Elena Poniatowska Marie Ponsot Patricia Powell Richard Powers Richard Price
Michael Chabon
Rosemary Catacalos
Vikram Chandra
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Nicholas Christopher
Sandra Cisneros
Robert Phillips
Joseph O’Neill
Hortense Calisher Rafael Campo Peter Carey Anne Carson Raymond Carver
Nina Cassian
Caryl Phillips
Michael Ondaatje
Robert Pinsky
Stanley Plumly
Francine Prose Susan Prospere E. Annie Proulx Claudia Rankine Laura Restrepo
Billy Collins
Adrienne Rich Alberto Rios Marilynne Robinson Roxana Robinson James Robison
Jane Cooper Robert Creeley Michael Cunningham Ellen Currie Edwidge Danticat
Mary Robison Richard Rodriguez Pattiann Rogers Norman Rush Salman Rushdie
Lydia Davis Amber Dermont Toi Derricotte Anita Desai Kiran Desai Junot Díaz
Karen Russell
Joan Didion
Amy Clampitt
Lucille Clifton
Annie Dillard
Emma Donoghue
Stuart Dybek
J. M. Coetzee
Rita Dove
Jennifer Egan
Richard Russo
Kay Ryan
Tomaž Šalamun
James Salter
Joanna Scott
Anthony Doerr
Marjane Satrapi
Denise Duhamel
Stephen Dunn
Mary Lee Settle Ntozake Shange Jane Shore Gary Shteyngart Charles Simic
Deborah Eisenberg
Louis Simpson Josef Skvorecky Jane Smiley Charlie Smith Dave Smith Lee Smith
Dave Eggers
George Saunders
Gjertrud Schnackenberg
E. L. Doctorow
Chitra Divakaruni
Mark Doty
Geoff Dyer
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Lynn Emanuel Anne Enright Louise Erdrich Martin Espada Jeffrey Eugenides
Patricia Smith
Irving Feldman
Nick Flynn
Gilbert Sorrentino Gary Soto Elizabeth Spencer David St. John Daniel Stern
Carlos Fuentes
Alice Fulton
Carolyn Forché
Richard Ford
Ernest J. Gaines
Jonathan Franzen
Cristina García
Lionel Garcia
Tracy K. Smith
Gerald Stern
Pamela Stewart
Zadie Smith
W. D. Snodgrass
Robert Stone
Mark Strand
William Styron
Louise Glück Albert Goldbarth Francisco Goldman Mary Gordon Jorie Graham
Peter Taylor
John Graves Francine duPlessix Gray Lucy Grealy Allen Grossman Thom Gunn
Natasha Trethewey Amos Tutuola John Updike Luis Alberto Urrea Jean Valentine
Marilyn Hacker
Mona Van Duyn
Mario Vargas Llosa
Derek Walcott
David Foster Wallace
Ron Hansen
Daniel Halpern
Michael S. Harper
Robert Hass
Mohsin Hamid
Patricia Hampl
John Hawkes
Terrance Hayes
Lorenzo Thomas
Mary Szybist
Elizabeth Strout
Alicia Gaspar de Alba William Gass Dagoberto Gilb Malcolm Gladwell Julia Glass
Kimiko Hahn
John Jeremiah Sullivan
Susan Sontag
Amy Tan
Christopher Tilghman
James Tate
Thomas Transtromer
Abraham Verghese
Andrea White
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Colson Whitehead
Seamus Heaney Anthony Hecht Amy Hempel Cristina Henríquez Brenda Hillman
John Edgar Wideman Richard Wilbur C. K. Williams John A. Williams Joy Williams
Edward Hirsch Tony Hoagland John Holman Garrett Hongo Khaled Hosseini
Christian Wiman
Maureen Howard Richard Howard Marie Howe David Hughes Kazuo Ishiguro
C. D. Wright
John Irving Major Jackson Marlon James Phyllis Janowitz Gish Jen Ha Jin
David Wojahn
Charles Wright
Tobias Wolff
Franz Wright
Susan Wood
Jay Wright
Daniel Woodrell
David Wroblewski
Kevin Young Adam Zagajewski Gwendolyn Zepeda
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About
Inprint
The mission of Inprint is to inspire readers and writers in
Houston. A nonprofit organization founded in 1983 to foster
the art of creative writing, Inprint fulfills its mission through
literary performance programs such as the Inprint Margarett
Root Brown Reading Series, Cool Brains! Inprint Readings for
The Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series is generously
underwritten in large part by The Brown Foundation, Inc.
Margarett Root Brown, an educator and lover of good books,
was one of the Foundation’s directors when it was formed in
1917. Inprint is proud to honor Mrs. Brown’s service to Houston
and her philanthropic support of the arts. To date, the Inprint
Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, now in its 36th season,
Young People, and the Inprint Poetry Buskers; writing workshops
for aspiring writers, senior citizens, K–12 school teachers,
and healthcare workers; support for emerging writers at the
University of Houston Creative Writing Program, surpassing $3
million in fellowships and prizes; and other activities that make
reading and creative writing vibrant aspects of community life
in Houston.
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2016/2017 season tickets on sale!
igned copy of Jonathan Safran Foer’s new novel
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Here I Am, available for pick up at the reading. Those
who purchase two season tickets per household will
receive a signed copy of George Saunders’ new novel
Lincoln in the Bardo as the second book.
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