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SUMMARY:Inprint Brown Reading Series: John Banville & Abraham Verghese
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Event Name: Inprint Brown Reading Series: John Banville & Abraham Verghese=0D=0AEvent Url: http://www.artshound.com/event/detail/27715=0D=0AEvent Date Begin: 2010-03-01=0D=0AEvent Date End: 2010-03-01=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=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=JOHN BANVILLE, hailed by The Economist as “Ireland's finest contemporary novelist,” won the 2005 Man Booker Prize for his novel, The Sea. A prodigious author, Banville has written more than 20 books, including mysteries under the pen name Benjamin Black. The Sunday Telegraph says, “With his fastidious wit and exquisite style, John Banville is the heir to Nabokov.”=0D=0A=His other works include The Book of Evidence, which The New York Times Book Review calls “a disturbing little novel that might have been coughed up from hell,” Eclipse, Shroud, The Untouchable, and many others; his Benjamin Black titles include Christine Falls and The Silver Swan. Banville will read from his eagerly anticipated new novel, The Infinities, a wholly unexpected lively, comical, and irreverent multi-generational family saga.=0D=0A=ABRAHAM VERGHESE (pictured), an Ethopian-born South Asian physician, is the author of two highly acclaimed memoirs, My Own Country, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Tennis Partner, a New York Times Notable Book, of which Kaye Gibbons says, “It supersedes any memoir I've ever read. . . a wonderful examination of what it means to be alive.”=0D=0A=His newest work, Cutting for Stone, marks his transition from memoir to the novel, in a sprawling family epic set mostly in Ethiopia. Verghese is “something of a magician as a novelist,” writes USA Today, adding that “Cutting for Stone is an underdog and a winner. Shades of Slumdog Millionaire.” Simon Schama calls it “beautiful and deeply affecting.” Verghese is currently a professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine.=0D=0A= =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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