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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Inprint Brown Reading Series:  Joseph O'Neill & Mar
 ilynne Robinson\nEvent Url: http://www.artshound.com/event/detail/27707/In
 print_Brown_Reading_Series_Joseph_ONeill_Marilynne_Robinson\nEvent Date Be
 gin: 2009-09-21\nEvent Date End: 2009-09-21\n\nNow in its 29th year\, Inpr
 int is proud to present the 2009/2010 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading
  Series\, one of the finest reading series in the country\, giving Houston
 ians a chance to hear from and meet some of the world's leading writers. F
 rom September through May\, 12 renowned authors will come to Houston\, man
 y for the first time\, sharing their work and insights.\nSince the reading
 s series began\, Inprint has hosted more than 300 of the world's great wri
 ters\, including winners of 4 Nobel Prizes\, 44 Pulitzer Prizes\, and 43 N
 ational Book Awards. The Series ranks among the nation's leading literary 
 showcases and continues to be accessible to all.\nAll readings take place 
 on Mondays at 7:30 pm (doors open at 6:45). Each reading features an on-st
 age interview\, followed by a book sale and signing\, run by Brazos Bookst
 ore.\n2009-2010 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series Schedule:\nJos
 eph O'Neill & Marilynne Robinson\nSeptember 21\, 2009\nZilkha Hall\, Hobby
  Center for the Performing Arts\, 800 Bagby\nJOSEPH O'NEILL's (pictured) l
 atest novel\, Netherland\, the first &ldquo\;non-business&rdquo\; book Pre
 sident Obama read after his inauguration\, has been hailed by Michiko Kaku
 tani in The New York Times as &ldquo\;stunning . . . a resonant meditation
  on the American Dream.&rdquo\; Winner of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award\, Ne
 therland &ldquo\;has more life inside it than ten very good novels.&rdquo\
 ; (Dwight Garner\, The New York Times Book Review)\nO'Neill's other novels
  include This Is the Life and The Breezes\, and the nonfiction New York Ti
 mes Notable Book\, Blood-Dark Track\, a family history centered on the imp
 risonment of both of his grandfathers during World War II. O'Neill\, born 
 in Ireland and raised in Mozambique\, South Africa\, Iran\, Turkey\, and H
 olland\, writes regularly for The Atlantic.\nMARILYNNE ROBINSON received t
 he 2009 Orange Prize (recognizing the best novel in English by a woman) fo
 r her third novel\, Home\, which Publishers Weekly calls '...an elegant va
 riation on the parable of the prodigal son.' The novel\, also a finalist f
 or the National Book Award\, is a companion piece to Gilead\, which won bo
 th the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award
 .\n'Robinson's words have a spiritual force that's very rare in contempora
 ry fiction\,' says James Wood in The New York Times Book Review. Robinson'
 s other works include her debut novel\, Housekeeping\, 'so precise\, so di
 stilled\, so beautiful that one doesn't want to miss any pleasure it might
  yield' (Le Anne Schreiber\, The New York Times Book Review)\, and the non
 ficiton works\, Mother Country and The Death of Adam.\nE.L. Doctorow\nOcto
 ber 19\, 2009\nHubbard Stage\, Alley Theatre\, 615 Texas Avenue\nMary Karr
 \nJanuary 11\, 2010\nZilkha Hall\, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts\, 
 800 Bagby\nDavid Wroblewski\nJanuary 25\, 2010\nHubbard Stage\, Alley Thea
 tre\, 615 Texas Avenue\nJohn Banville & Abraham Verghese\nMarch 1\, 2010\n
 Zilkha Hall\, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts\, 800 Bagby\nTracy Kidd
 er\nMarch 22\, 2010\nHubbard Stage\, Alley Theatre\, 615 Texas Avenue\nDor
 ianne Laux & Patricia Smith\nApril 12\, 2010\nNeuhaus Stage\, Alley Theatr
 e\, 615 Texas Avenue\nOscar Casares & Gwendolyn Zepeda\nMay 3\, 2010\nHubb
 ard Stage\, Alley Theatre\, 615 Texas Avenue\n\nStart time: All readings t
 ake place on Mondays at 7:30 pm (doors open at 6:45). Each reading feature
 s an on-stage interview\, followed by a book sale and signing\, run by Bra
 zos Bookstore.\n
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