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Inprint Brown Reading Series: Joseph O'Neill & Marilynne Robinson

Presented by Inprint at Hobby Center - Zilkha Hall

September 21, 2009

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Now 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.

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.

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.

2009-2010 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series Schedule:

Joseph O'Neill & Marilynne Robinson
September 21, 2009
Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, 800 Bagby

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)

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.

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.

"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.

E.L. Doctorow
October 19, 2009
Hubbard Stage, Alley Theatre, 615 Texas Avenue

Mary Karr
January 11, 2010
Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, 800 Bagby

David Wroblewski
January 25, 2010
Hubbard Stage, Alley Theatre, 615 Texas Avenue

John Banville & Abraham Verghese
March 1, 2010
Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, 800 Bagby

Tracy Kidder
March 22, 2010
Hubbard Stage, Alley Theatre, 615 Texas Avenue

Dorianne Laux & Patricia Smith
April 12, 2010
Neuhaus Stage, Alley Theatre, 615 Texas Avenue

Oscar Casares & Gwendolyn Zepeda
May 3, 2010
Hubbard Stage, Alley Theatre, 615 Texas Avenue