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SUMMARY:Inprint Brown Reading Series:  Joseph O'Neill & Marilynne Robinson
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Event Name: Inprint Brown Reading Series:  Joseph O'Neill & Marilynne Robinson=0D=0AEvent Url: http://www.artshound.com/event/detail/27707=0D=0AEvent Date Begin: 2009-09-21=0D=0AEvent Date End: 2009-09-21=0D=0A=0D=0ANow in its 29th year, Inprint is proud to present the 2009/2010 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, one of the finest reading series in the country, giving Houstonians a chance to hear from and meet some of the world's leading writers. From September through May, 12 renowned authors will come to Houston, many for the first time, sharing their work and insights.=0D=0A=Since the readings series began, Inprint has hosted more than 300 of the world's great writers, including winners of 4 Nobel Prizes, 44 Pulitzer Prizes, and 43 National Book Awards. The Series ranks among the nation's leading literary showcases and continues to be accessible to all.=0D=0A=All readings take place on Mondays at 7:30 pm (doors open at 6:45). Each reading features an on-stage interview, followed by a book sale and signing, run by Brazos Bookstore.=0D=0A=2009-2010 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series Schedule:=0D=0A=Joseph O'Neill & Marilynne Robinson=0D=0A=September 21, 2009=0D=0A=Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, 800 Bagby=0D=0A=JOSEPH O'NEILL's (pictured) latest novel, Netherland, the first “non-business” book President Obama read after his inauguration, has been hailed by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times as “stunning . . . a resonant meditation on the American Dream.” Winner of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award, Netherland “has more life inside it than ten very good novels.” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review)=0D=0A=O'Neill's other novels include This Is the Life and The Breezes, and the nonfiction New York Times Notable Book, Blood-Dark Track, a family history centered on the imprisonment of both of his grandfathers during World War II. O'Neill, born in Ireland and raised in Mozambique, South Africa, Iran, Turkey, and Holland, writes regularly for The Atlantic.=0D=0A=MARILYNNE ROBINSON received the 2009 Orange Prize (recognizing the best novel in English by a woman) for her third novel, Home, which Publishers Weekly calls '...an elegant variation on the parable of the prodigal son.' The novel, also a finalist for the National Book Award, is a companion piece to Gilead, which won both the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award.=0D=0A='Robinson's words have a spiritual force that's very rare in contemporary fiction,' says James Wood in The New York Times Book Review. Robinson's other works include her debut novel, Housekeeping, 'so precise, so distilled, 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 nonficiton works, Mother Country and The Death of Adam.=0D=0A=E.L. Doctorow=0D=0A=October 19, 2009=0D=0A=Hubbard Stage, Alley Theatre, 615 Texas Avenue=0D=0A=Mary Karr=0D=0A=January 11, 2010=0D=0A=Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, 800 Bagby=0D=0A=David Wroblewski=0D=0A=January 25, 2010=0D=0A=Hubbard Stage, Alley Theatre, 615 Texas Avenue=0D=0A=John Banville & Abraham Verghese=0D=0A=March 1, 2010=0D=0A=Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, 800 Bagby=0D=0A=Tracy Kidder=0D=0A=March 22, 2010=0D=0A=Hubbard Stage, Alley Theatre, 615 Texas Avenue=0D=0A=Dorianne Laux & Patricia Smith=0D=0A=April 12, 2010=0D=0A=Neuhaus Stage, Alley Theatre, 615 Texas Avenue=0D=0A=Oscar Casares & Gwendolyn Zepeda=0D=0A=May 3, 2010=0D=0A=Hubbard Stage, Alley Theatre, 615 Texas Avenue=0D=0A=0D=0AStart time:All readings take place on Mondays at 7:30 pm (doors open at 6:45). Each reading features an on-stage interview, followed by a book sale and signing, run by Brazos Bookstore.=0D=0A= 
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