BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//artshound.com//NONSGML iCalcreator 2.6// VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:Calendar of artshound.com X-WR-CALDESC:In this calendar you will find information about events that y ou did save X-WR-TIMEZONE:US/Pacific BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20120211T090857CET-7557fuFWlm@artshound.com DTSTAMP:20120211T080857Z CATEGORIES:Personal CLASS:EVENT DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Inprint Brown Reading Series: Orhan Pamuk\, a Speci al Event\nEvent Url: http://www.artshound.com/event/detail/32249/Inprint_B rown_Reading_Series_Orhan_Pamuk_a_Special_Event\nEvent Date Begin: 2009-11 -16\nEvent Date End: 2009-11-16\n\nNow in its 29th year\, Inprint is proud to present the 2009/2010 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series\, on e of the finest reading series in the country\, giving Houstonians a chanc e to hear from and meet some of the world's leading writers. From Septembe r through May\, 12 renowned authors will come to Houston\, many for the fi rst time\, sharing their work and insights.\nSince the readings series beg an\, Inprint has hosted more than 300 of the world's great writers\, inclu ding winners of 4 Nobel Prizes\, 44 Pulitzer Prizes\, and 43 National Book Awards. The Series ranks among the nation's leading literary showcases an d continues to be accessible to all.\nEach reading features an on-stage in terview\, followed by a book sale and signing\, run by Brazos Bookstore.\n 2009-2010 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series Schedule:\nJoseph O' Neill & Marilynne Robinson\nSeptember 21\, 2009\nZilkha Hall\, Hobby Cente r for the Performing Arts\, 800 Bagby\nE.L. Doctorow\nOctober 19\, 2009\nH ubbard Stage\, Alley Theatre\, 615 Texas Avenue\nOrhan Pamuk\, a Special E vent\nMonday\, November 16\, 2009\n7:00 pm\nZilkha Hall\, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts\, 800 Bagby\nThe great cities have their great chroni clers: Paris has Balzac\, Dublin has Joyce&mdash\;and Istanbul has Orhan P amuk (pictured\, photo by Jerry Bauer). In 2006\, announcing his Nobel P rize in Literature\, the Swedish Academy celebrated Pamuk's &ldquo\;quest for the melancholic soul of his native city.&rdquo\; In epic novels such a s The Black Book and My Name is Red\, Pamuk &ldquo\;has discovered new sym bols for the clash and interlacing of cultures.&rdquo\; A Pamuk book can b lend together history and politics\, love and murder\, art and intrigue.\n Like his beloved Istanbul\, Pamuk is a writer who stands at a crossroads&m dash\;between East and West\, modernity and tradition\, the individual and the nation state. Born in 1952 into a family of engineers\, Pamuk was des tined to become an engineer of the imagination. As an adolescent he was in terested in painting and architecture\, but became a full-time writer in h is early twenties. A published novelist since the 1970s\, Pamuk did not re ceive real international recognition until the 1990s. In the last fifteen years\, however\, readers around the world have come to savor the way that Pamuk writes about Istanbul and its people\, using one to inform the othe r\, so that\, as he has put it himself\, &ldquo\;it's impossible to distin guish the character from the city\, the city from the character.&rdquo\;\n Orhan Pamuk lived in the United States for three years in the 1980s\, when he was a visiting scholar at Columbia University and the University of Io wa. Currently he is Robert Yik-Fong Professor in the Humanities at Columbi a. On November 16\, he reads from his new book\, The Museum of Innocence\, in Houston\, another city that knows about the &ldquo\;interlacing of cul tures.&rdquo\;\nIt was the happiest moment of my life\, though I didn't kn ow it.&rdquo\; So begins the new novel\, his first since winning the Nobel Prize. It is 1975\, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal\, scion of one of the city's wealthiest families\, is about to become engaged to Sibel\, da ughter of another prominent family\, when he encounters Fü\;sun\, a be autiful shopgirl and a distant relation. Once the long-lost cousins violat e the code of virginity\, a rift begins to open between Kemal and the worl d of the Westernized Istanbul bourgeosie&mdash\;a world\, as he lovingly d escribes it\, with opulent parties and clubs\, society gossip\, restaurant rituals\, picnics\, and mansions on the Bosphorus\, infused with the mela ncholy of decay&mdash\;until finally he breaks off his engagement to Sibel .\nBut his resolve comes too late. For eight years Kemal will find excuses to visit another Istanbul\, that of the impoverished backstreets where F& uuml\;sun\, her heart now hardened\, lives with her parents\, and where Ke mal discovers the consolations of middle-class life at a dinner table in f ront of the television. His obsessive love will also take him to the demim onde of Istanbul film circles (where he promises to make Fü\;sun a sta r)\, a scene of seedy bars\, run-down cheap hotels\, and small men with bi g dreams doomed to bitter failure. In his feckless pursuit\, Kemal becomes a compulsive collector of objects that chronicle his lovelorn progress an d his afflicted heart's reactions: anger and impatience\, remorse and humi liation\, deluded hopes of recovery\, and daydreams that transform Istanbu l into a cityscape of signs and specters of his beloved\, from whom now he can extract only meaningful glances and stolen kisses in cars\, movie hou ses\, and shadowy corners of parks.\nA last change to realize his dream wi ll come to an awful end before Kemal discovers that all he finally can pos sess\, certainly and eternally\, is the museum he has created of his colle ction\, this map of a society's manners and mores\, and of one man's broke n heart.\nA stirring exploration of the nature of romantic attachment and of the mysterious allure of collecting\, The Museum of Innocence also plum bs the depths of an Istanbul half Western and half traditional&mdash\;its emergent modernity\, its vast cultural history. This is Orhan Pamuk's grea test achievement.\nMary Karr\nJanuary 11\, 2010\nZilkha Hall\, Hobby Cente r for the Performing Arts\, 800 Bagby\nDavid Wroblewski\nJanuary 25\, 2010 \nHubbard Stage\, Alley Theatre\, 615 Texas Avenue\nJohn Banville & Abraha m Verghese\nMarch 1\, 2010\nZilkha Hall\, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts\, 800 Bagby\nTracy Kidder\nMarch 22\, 2010\nHubbard Stage\, Alley The atre\, 615 Texas Avenue\nDorianne Laux & Patricia Smith\nApril 12\, 2010\n Neuhaus Stage\, Alley Theatre\, 615 Texas Avenue\nOscar Casares & Gwendoly n Zepeda\nMay 3\, 2010\nHubbard Stage\, Alley Theatre\, 615 Texas Avenue\n \nStart time: 7pm\n DTSTART:20091116T000000 DTEND:20091116T000000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Inprint Brown Reading Series: Orhan Pamuk\, a Special Event TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR