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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Inprint Reading on the Green:  Katherine Center & E
 mily Fox Gordon\nEvent Url: http://www.artshound.com/event/detail/21191/In
 print_Reading_on_the_Green_Katherine_Center_Emily_Fox_Gordon\nEvent Date B
 egin: 2009-04-08\nEvent Date End: 2009-04-08\n\nInprint Reading on the Gre
 en presents Katherine Center (pictured) reads from her new novel\, Everyon
 e Is Beautiful\; and Emily Fox Gordon reads from her debut novel (and thir
 d book)\, It Will Come to Me. A night of much wit and laughter by two terr
 ifically talented and humorous Houston authors.\nFrom the author of The Br
 ight Side of Disaster\, the entertaining and ultimately poignant story of 
 what happens after happily ever after: how a mother of three recaptures he
 r sense of self and falls in love with her husband all over again.  Everyo
 ne is Beautiful\, A Novel\, Katherine Center .\nLanie Coates just piled ev
 erything she owns into a U-Haul and drove with her husband\, Peter\, and t
 hree boys (all under four) across the country. She's left her helpful pare
 nts\, her mom-friends\, and the comforts of home behind&mdash\;all because
  Peter got into graduate school. Even though Lanie wants to help him follo
 w his dreams\, she suspects that she's ignoring her own. If only she could
  remember what they were.\nAnd that's just it. Lanie can't shake the feeli
 ng that important things from her pre-mom life have gone missing: her marr
 iage\, her ambitions\, her body. She feels homesick\, capsized by motherho
 od\, and just dead certain that she is no longer fabulous. Not even close.
 \nWhen another mom humiliates her at the park\, Lanie decides it's time to
  retool her life. She sets change after change in motion\, hoping to recap
 ture her lost self. But she also creates ripples that will come to threate
 n everything she holds dear. In the end\, Lanie must figure out once and f
 or all how to find herself without losing everything else in the process.
 \nKatherine Pannill Center started writing fiction when she was in sixth g
 rade\, when she and her two best friends filled countless spirals with sto
 ries about meeting Duran Duran at the mall and bewitching the band members
  into falling in love with them. These stories involved kissing\, weeping\
 , limos\, the occasional log cabin\, and many gentle blankets of snow.\nAr
 ound that time\, Katherine also started keeping journals\, logging with gr
 eat sincerity every detail of middle school life as she knew it. Lists of 
 friends! Lists of boys! Lists of must-have shoes! Lists of personal flaws 
 and areas for improvement! The journals (though not the lists) continued t
 hrough college\, and now Katherine has storage boxes of them taking up far
  too much room in her attic.\nKatherine always intended to be a writer. At
  St. John's School\, in Houston\, where she clocked her K-12 years\, she g
 enerated stacks of poems\, school newspaper columns\, and short stories. A
 t Vassar College\, she majored in English\, wrote short stories\, lettered
  her poems onto metal signs that she put up around campus\, and wrote a no
 vella (which won the Vassar College Fiction Prize).\nNot too far out of co
 llege\, she met the guy she would get to marry a few years later. On that 
 first night\, he held the car door open for her\, made her laugh so hard h
 er face hurt\, and--he says--knew by the end of the evening that she was t
 he one. On their second date\, Katherine almost choked to death on a panca
 ke.\nAround that same time\, Katherine won a fellowship to the University 
 of Houston's Creative Writing Program\, where she taught Freshman English 
 and earned an MA in Fiction. She also co-edited fiction for the literary m
 agazine Gulf Coast.\nAfter graduate school\, Katherine held a number of cr
 azy jobs and a few sensible ones. Her favorite job was teaching creative w
 riting to little kids through a program called Writers In The Schools. She
  also liked working in her uncle's &ldquo\;Used\, Rare & Out-of-Print&rdqu
 o\; bookstore\, an old house with many reading nooks and a secret door\, w
 hich has now been sold and turned into an Italian restaurant.\nKatherine g
 rew up in Houston\, the middle of three very close sisters. Her older sist
 er\, who has beautiful red hair\, worked as a journalist for many years an
 d now teaches French. Her younger sister\, who has beautiful green eyes\, 
 is a lawyer with a serious knack for decorating. When they were younger\, 
 their house was a cacophony of stereos blaring from each room\, blow-dryer
 s\, and phones ringing. Back then\, they sometimes got so mad at each othe
 r they threw shoes. Now\, they are all great friends.\nKatherine's parents
  are both Texans with charming accents. Her dad is a lawyer and her mom&md
 ash\;among many other things&mdash\;crossbreeds Brahman cattle with Herfor
 ds at her ranch.\nKatherine's husband Gordon is a sixth grade teacher at t
 he school she herself went to\, and he likes to joke that they met in his 
 class. They have two feisty and impossibly sweet young children&mdash\;a g
 irl and a boy&mdash\;who love to give hugs\, turn on the hose\, raise and 
 lower the driver's seat in the car\, run the bath faucet\, squirt hand san
 itizer\, eat lollipops\, sweep rain puddles\, dump out raisin boxes\, stan
 d on the dining table\, unfold folded things\, listen to stories\, and giv
 e people presents (like sticks\, pieces of cardboard and grocery receipts 
 from their mama's purse).\nIf you ask Katherine's 4-year-old daughter what
  Katherine does for a living\, she will tell you that her mama &ldquo\;is 
 an author. Just like Richard Scarry.&rdquo\;\nThe first novel from the acc
 laimed memoirist Emily Fox Gordon is a tart\, intelligent comedy of manner
 s set on the campus of a large Southern university. It is also a story abo
 ut the comforts and grievances of a marriage of longstanding -- about chan
 ge and continuity and the possibility of renewal in midlife.\nBen Blau is 
 the reluctant chair of the philosophy department of The Lola Dees Institut
 e\, surrounded by a bestiary of academic innocents and opportunists. His w
 ife Ruth -- a writer whose early literary success never quite blossomed in
 to a career -- nurtures sometimes noisy and sometimes private rebellions a
 gainst the conventions of academic life. Their lives have settled\, if not
  always comfortably\, into a dull ceremonial round of convocations\, commi
 ttee meetings\, and pot-luck dinners. To Ruth it seems that nothing will e
 ver change.\nExcept that this year a new couple has arrived on campus: an 
 ethereal\, celebrated young memoirist and her husband\, an intellectual ja
 ck-of-all-trades and perpetual misfit. Something about these two throws th
 e staid academic world of the Lola Dees Institute into comic chaos and rev
 ives Ruth's hopes that she might become once again the writer she used to 
 be.\nEmily Fox Gordon's astringent depiction of academic life and her matu
 re\, finely wrought observations about marriage and relationships make It 
 Will Come to Me is a complete delight -- engaging\, wise\, superbly writte
 n\, and very\, very funny.\nEmily Fox Gordon has published personal essays
  in Boulevard\, Salmagundi\, and The American Scholar\, among other litera
 ry magazines. Her work has won two Pushcart Prizes and has been shortliste
 d in Best American Essays\, and three of her essays were anthologized in t
 he Anchor Essay Annual.\nAn essay about her hospitalization as a teenager 
 at Austen Riggs formed the basis for Mockingbird Years (2000)\, a memoir w
 hich was also a critique of psychotherapy. Mockingbird Years was named a N
 ew York Times Notable Book and was chosen as one of Amazon.com's top ten m
 emoirs for the year. It also received glowing front-page consideration in 
 The New York Times Book Review and was subsequently translated into Hebrew
  and Chinese.\nGordon has been awarded residencies at Yaddo and the MacDow
 ell colony. She has developed a strong interest in teaching as well\, and 
 has taught workshops at Rice University\, Houston's INPRINT program\, and 
 the University of Wyoming. Her new memoir\, Are You Happy?\, began\, like 
 its predecessor\, as an essay. Emily Fox Gordon lives in Houston\, Texas.
 \n\n\nThis reading is presented by Inprint\, a literary arts nonprofit org
 anization whose mission is to inspire readers and writers\, in partnership
  with Discovery Green Park. Inprint receives support from The City of Hous
 ton through the Houston Arts Alliance and the Texas Commission on the Arts
 .\n\nStart time: 7:00pm\n\nThe reading is free and open to the public and 
 is followed by a book sale and signing.
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