Inprint Brown Reading Series 2007-08 season lineup announced
The Inprint Brown Reading Series season lineup has been announced. My personal highlights include Michael Chabon and Dave Eggers, founder of publishing house McSweeney’s whose Internet Tendency is a daily read. See the Inprint Houston website for more information.
Houston Chronicle: Inprint Brown Reading Series
• Oct. 15: Richard Powers and Jennifer Egan. Powers (The Gold Bug Variations; The Echo Maker) often incorporates science, medicine and technology into tales fraught with emotional and moral complexity. Egan’s novels include Look at Me and, most recently, The Keep.
• Nov. 12: Elizabeth Alexander and Taha Muhammad Ali. Alexander’s poetry collections include The Venus Hottentot and American Sublime. Ali is a leading figure on the contemporary Palestinian literary scene. His books include So What: New and Selected Poems.
• Jan. 21: Vikram Chandra and Mayra Montero. Indian-born Chandra, an alumnus of University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program, is author most recently of Sacred Games, a 900-page epic of crime and corruption in contemporary Mumbai. Cuban-born Montero is author of nine novels, including Dancing to “Almendra,” set in Mafia-dominated, pre-Castro Havana.
• Feb. 17: Dave Eggers and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Eggers’ memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, launched his career in 2000. McSweeney’s, his literary journal and publishing house, has become a leading platform for up-and-coming writers. Adichie’s novel Half of a Yellow Sun won the 2007 Orange Prize. New York magazine described it as “like Gone With the Wind, except in Nigeria.” This reading will be at Cullen Theatre, Wortham Center.
• March 31: Alice McDermott and Laura Restrepo. McDermott won the National Book Award for her novel Charming Billy. Restrepo, from Colombia, is a leading figure in contemporary Latin American fiction. Delirium (2007) is her latest novel translated into English. This reading will be at Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts.
• April 12: Robert Hass. A former U.S. poet laureate, Hass has a new collection out in October, Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005.
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[…] Houston is not, to my mind, a particularly literary town, that is to say, it defies one to write about it. It has no deficit of aspiration of course and has played host to many a worthy practitioner - minimalist kingpin Donald Barthelme, poets Mark Doty, Edward Hirsch, Cynthia MacDonald, Vassar Miller, and of course Larry McMurtry - and a whole flotilla of authors I’ve neglected or am not aware of. […]