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Anne Carson Monday, April 28, 2014 Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center ROBERT BOSWELL is, according to The Times robert Book Review, “an exuberant and enormously talented writer. … With dazzling technical skill, intelligence, and moral seri- ousness, he mesmerizes us.” The holder of the Cullen Chair in boswell Creative Writing at the University of Houston with his wife Antonya Nelson, Boswell is the author of six novels, including Century’s Son, Mystery Ride (named one of the best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune and Publishers Weekly), and Crooked Hearts; three story collections; a play; a cyberpunk novel; and two nonfiction books, including The Half-Known World, a book on the craft of writing. His story collection The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards was a finalist for the 2010 PEN USA Literary Award. Boswell will read from his new novel Tumbledown, which Publishers Weekly says “is a crowded, tender, and captivating novel, the experience of which brings to the fore how reading itself can replenish our photo: dana k roos photo: dana james photo: sarah leen love of the imperfect beauty of humanity.” JAMES McBRIDE’s memoir The Color of Water—about growing up in ’s Red Hook housing project in an McBride African-American and Jewish family with 11 siblings, all of whom go on to successful careers—spent two years on bestseller list, sold more than 2.5 million Monday copies, and is now considered an American classic. His first August 26, 2013 novel, Miracle at St. Anna, about African-American soldiers 7:30 pm fighting in Italy during WWII, was made into a feature film directed by . About Song Yet Sung, his second novel, zilkha hall The Dallas Morning News writes, “It’s hard to imagine anyone being able to write to the caliber of … but hobby center for James McBride does just that.” He co-wrote and co-produced the performing arts the film Red Hook Summer with Spike Lee. McBride is also 800 bagby street a jazz saxophonist and composer and has written songs for Anita Baker, Grover Washington, Jr., and others. McBride will general admission tickets: $5 read from his new novel , based on the on sale August 1, 2013, at inprinthouston.org abolitionist John Brown. KHALED HOSSEINI’s books have sold more than 10 million copies in the and more than 38 million copies worldwide. His debut novel The Kite Runner became an international bestseller, spending more than 100 weeks

photo: elena seibert on the New York Times bestseller list. Publishers Weekly khaled described it as “stunning …. It is rare that a book is at once so timely and of such high literary quality.” His second novel A Thousand Splendid Suns debuted at #1 on the New York hosseini Times bestseller list, remaining in that spot for 15 weeks and nearly an entire year on the bestseller list. Hosseini comes to Houston to read from his third novel And the Mountains Monday Echoed, which in The New York Times calls “his most assured and emotionally gripping story yet.” september 23, 2013 Booklist describes it as “captivating and affecting …. A mas- 7:30 pm terful and compassionate storyteller, Hosseini traces the traumas and scarring of tyranny, war, crime, lies, and illness brown theater in the intricately interconnected, heartbreaking, and tran- wortham center scendent lives of his vibrantly realized characters.” Born in 501 texas avenue Kabul, Afghanistan, Hosseini moved to the United States in 1980 and became a physician. In 2006, Hosseini was named a presented in association with Houston Downtown Alliance Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations Refugee Agency, and he general admission tickets: $5 founded the Khaled Hosseini Foundation to provide humani- on sale August 27, 2013, at inprinthouston.org tarian assistance to Afghanistan. JHUMPA LAHIRI burst on to the literary scene in 2000 when her debut story collection Interpreter of Maladies photo: marco delogu was awarded the 2000 for fiction, the PEN/ Jhumpa Hemingway Award, and Debut of the Year. According to USA Today, “What sets Lahiri apart is simple yet richly detailed writing that makes the heart ache as Lahiri she meticulously unfolds the lives of her characters.” says, “She has talent—magical, sly, cumulative—that most writers would kill for.” Her first novel The Namesake, Sunday described by The New York Times as “dazzling … an intimate, closely observed family portrait,” was a New York Times october 13, 2013 Notable Book and was later made into a feature film directed 7:30 pm by Mira Nair and starring Kal Pen. Lahiri’s second book of sto- ries Unaccustomed Earth received the 2008 Frank O’Connor cullen theater International Award and was a finalist for the wortham center Story Prize. The Philadelphia Inquirer called it “exquisite, 501 texas avenue transcendent .… Lahiri is a writer of luminous prose and indelible stories.” She will be reading from her new novel The general admission tickets: $5 Lowland, coming out in September, which is set in and or $30 (includes ticket and signed copy of the lowland) the U.S. and focuses on the lives of two brothers. on sale September 24, 2013, at inprinthouston.org Chimamanda CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE, born in Nigeria, “is very much the 21st-century daughter of that other great Ngozi Igbo , Chinua Achebe,” says Book World. She is the author of Purple Hibiscus, winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book and the Adichie Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the 2007 Orange Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book; and the short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. She will read from her new novel Americanah, which Vogue describes as “a lush, bighearted love story that also happens to be a piercingly funny social critique.” The New York Times Book Review calls it “trenchant and hugely empathetic, both worldly and geographically precise, [a novel that] holds the realities of our times fearlessly before us [and] never feels false.” Adichie received a MacArthur Foundation “genius” fellowship in 2008, photo: ivara esege photo: ivara Colum photo: dustin a k sland and her work has been translated into 30 languages. COLUM McCANN, born in , , is the bestsell- ing author of the 2009 winner Let the McCann Great World Spin, which The New York Times called “one of the most electric, profound novels … in years … an emotional tour de force.” His other works include the novels Songdogs, This Side of Brightness, Dancer, and Zoli, a novella, and two monday story collections. His short film Everything in This Country Must was nominated for an Oscar. McCann will be reading november 18, 2013 from his new novel TransAtlantic. Beginning in the year of 7:30 pm the Irish famine and ending in 2011 when President Obama lands on Irish shores, Kirkus Reviews describes TransAtlantic tickets hubbard stage as “a masterful and profoundly moving novel that employs alley theatre exquisite language to explore the limits of language and the 615 texas avenue tricks of memory … epic in ambition … audacious in format.” McCann has been awarded the Rooney Prize and the Irish general admission tickets: $5 Novel of the Year Award, and his work has been translated on sale October 14, 2013, at inprinthouston.org into 35 languages. photo: caitlin saunders GEORGE SAUNDERS was named one of Time magazine’s george “100 Most Influential People in the World” for 2013. Mary Karr writes in Time, “For more than a decade, George Saunders has saunders been the best short-story writer in English—not ‘one of,’ not ‘arguably,’ but the best.” Zadie Smith says, “Not since Twain has America produced a satirist this funny.” Saunders latest story collection Tenth of December debuted at #3 on the New York Times bestseller list and later reached the #2 spot. The monday New York Times Magazine, which featured it as a cover story, called Tenth of December “the best book you'll read this year.” january 27, 2014 The Boston Globe writes, “George Saunders captures the frag- 7:30 pm mented rhythms, disjointed sensory input, and wildly absurd realities of the 21st century experience like no other writer.” hubbard stage His other works include In Persuasion Nation, The Brief and alley theatre Frightening Reign of Phil, The Braindead Megaphone, New 615 texas avenue York Times Notable Books Pastoralia and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, and the New York Times children’s bestseller, General admission tickets: $5 The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip. In 2006 he was awarded on sale November 19, 2013, at inprinthouston.org a MacArthur Foundation “genius” fellowship. “animates the ordinary with astonishing force,” writes The New Yorker. She is best known for her New York Times bestselling book , which contains 13 connected stories that earned her the 2009

Pulitzer Prize and a place as a finalist for the 2008 National photo: leonardo cemdamo Book Critics Circle Award. “Funny, wicked, and remorseful, elizabeth Mrs. Kitteridge is a compelling life force, a red-blooded original,” says the San Francisco Chronicle. Entertainment Weekly writes, “Rarely does a story collection pack such strout a gutsy emotional punch.” Her latest novel The Burgess Boys, also a New York Times bestseller, has received rave reviews. Praising its “poignancy and emotional vigor,” The Washington Post writes, “The broad social and political monday range of The Burgess Boys shows just how impressively this extraordinary writer continues to develop.” The New York february 24, 2014 Times Book Review says, “Strout handles her storytelling with 7:30 pm … intelligence and low-key humor, demonstrating a great ear for the many registers in which people speak to their loved cullen theater ones.” She is also the author of the critically acclaimed novels wortham center Amy and Isabelle, which won the Art 501 texas avenue Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and Abide with Me, a national bestseller and General admission tickets: $5 Book Sense pick. on sale January 28, 2014, at inprinthouston.org DANIEL ALARCÓN’s “stories are one of the reasons why we go to storytellers—they present worlds we have only imagined daniel or heard about in truthful and poetic ways,” says novelist Edward P. Jones. Peruvian-born Alarcón’s first story collection War by Candlelight was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. alarcón His novel Lost City Radio won the 2009 International Literature Prize, the 2008 PEN USA Novel Award, and was named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times, The Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune. The Guardian writes, “Lost City Radio is a book of extraordinary power … [Alarcón’s] endless invention and sense of color are already second to none.” The Minneapolis Star Tribune hails, “reading Alarcón feels like witnessing the arrival of a or a Gabriel García Márquez.” magazine named Alarcón one of the best American under 35, and in 2010 The New Yorker named him one of “20 Under 40.” Co-founder of Radio Ambulante, Alarcón will read from his new novel At Night We photo: may-li k hoe photo: may-li mohsin photo: j illian edelstein Walk in Circles, coming out in October 2013. MOHSIN HAMID, born in Pakistan, “is one of the most talented and formally audacious writers of his generation,” hamid according to The Daily Telegraph. His debut novel Moth Smoke was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and named a New York Times Notable Book. His second novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist, with more than a million copies in print, was a monday New York Times Notable Book, was named a Book of the Decade by The Guardian, was shortlisted for the Man-Booker Prize, and march 24, 2014 was made into a film directed by Mira Nair. His latest novel How 7:30 pm to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia “reaffirms his place as one of his generation’s most inventive and gifted writers,” says Michiko stude concert hall Kakutani in The New York Times. The International Herald rice university Tribune advises, “If you read just one book this spring to under- stand how the world is changing, it should be Mohsin Hamid’s presented in association with rice university multicultural community relations in the office of public affairs new novel,” and Vogue describes it as “wonderfully astringent …. supermodels stalk city billboards; a drone hovers ominously in General admission tickets: $5 the sky—but his satiric impulse gives way to compassion for the on sale February 25, 2014, at inprinthouston.org intimacies that keep us tethered in a rapidly changing world.” ANNE CARSON, Canadian born, is hailed by Michael Ondaatje as “the most exciting poet writing today.” Often con-

sidered “unclassifiable” because of the way her work blends photo: peter smith genres, Carson is known for using her background as a clas- anne sicist to explore themes that fuse the Greek classics with issues of contemporary life. The New Yorker writes that “the pleasure of her writing is that it is both entirely new and carson strangely familiar, like remembering a private language we thought we’d forgotten.” A MacArthur Foundation “genius” fellow, Carson is author of many highly praised works, includ- monday ing ; Autobiography of Red: A Novel in april 28, 2014 Verse, which was named a New York Times Notable Book in 7:30 pm 1998 and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and The Beauty of the Husband. Her most recent col- zilkha hall lection red.doc> is a sequel to Autobiography of Red. The New York Times Book Review calls red.doc> “breathtaking … stun- hobby center for ning …. Anne Carson has a history of doing unpredictable and the performing arts genre-crossing things …. [Her] palatable, popular, sophisti- 800 bagby street cated and who-cares approach may have done the most and best work in the last two decades to stop people worrying so General admission ticekts: $5 much about what’s and what’s not.” on sale March 25, 2014, at inprinthouston.org Marilyn Hacker Kimiko Hahn Daniel Halpern Patricia Hampl Michael S. Harper Robert Hass John Hawkes Terrance Hayes Seamus Heaney Anthony Hecht Brenda Hillman Edward Hirsch Tony Hoagland John Holman Garrett Hongo Maureen Howard Richard Howard Marie Howe David Hughes inprint Major Jackson Phyllis Janowitz Gish Jen Charles Johnson Edward P. 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