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Inprint Brown Reading Series: Peter Carey

Presented by Inprint at Alley Theatre -- Patricia Peckinpaugh Hubbard Stage

January 24, 2011

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Welcome to the 30th anniversary season of the Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, considered one of the nation’s leading literary programs. Over the years, the Series has presented more than 300 of the world's great writers, including winners of five Nobel Prizes, 49 Pulitzer Prizes, 45 National Book Awards, and seven Booker Prize winners, as well as 13 U. S. Poet Laureates.

The 2010/2011 lineup continues the trend of literary greatness, presenting nine of the best contemporary writers. The season runs from September to April and consists of seven evenings, each beginning with a reading by one or two of the featured writers, followed by an on-stage interview conducted by a local writer or scholar. The evenings conclude with a book sale and signing, where audience members can meet the authors. All readings take place in Downtown Houston’s Theater District and begin at 7:30 pm.

Monday, January 24, 2011, one the Hubbard Stage, Alley Theatre, the Inprint Brown Reading Series presents Peter Carey.

PETER CAREY, born in Australia and the author of 11 critically acclaimed novels, is only the second writer to twice win the Man Booker Prize, the highest literary award of the British Commonwealth and Ireland. “Carey is a wily seducer, a mental acrobat who can bound across continents and centuries and make us believe in whatever world he has discovered and imagined,” says Paul Auster.

Carey rose to acclaim in the early 70s upon publication of his story collection, The Fat Man in History. His major works include Oscar and Lucinda (winner of the Booker Prize), Illywhacker (shortlisted for the Booker), True History of the Kelly Gang (winner of the Booker), Jack Maggs (based on characters from Dickens’ Great Expectations), and his most recent novel, Parrot and Olivier in America.

In Parrot and Olivier, “Carey re-imagines Alexis de Tocqueville’s American journey with a verve that is nothing short of captivating. Parrot and Olivier is a rollicking debate about America and its opportunities, its society and class distinctions. . . .” (The Denver Post)