LITERATURE + LECTURES

Brazos Bookstore is pleased to welcome author Glenn Blake for an in-store appearance on Friday, November 19, 2010, at 6:00 PM where he will read from and sign his book, Return Fire.

The stories in Return Fire are set in the swamps, bayous, and sloughs of Southeast Texas, a region that is subsiding -- sinking inches every year beneath the encroaching tides. The characters who inhabit Blake's Southern landscape struggle to salvage what they can of their hopes and dreams. They are the walking wounded -- cautious, crippled, capable of any act. Magnolias, water, mescal, stars, and fire return again and again in these seven sparse -- yet tightly written -- vignettes.

About the author: Glenn Blake is the managing editor of The Hopkins Review and a senior lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars. He has received the PEN Southwest Award for Fiction and the John N. Wall Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Blake is the author of Drowned Moon, also published by Johns Hopkins.