During the fall and spring semesters, various UH clubs and local writing associations will feature numerous free book readings by UH affiliates and notable local authors.
Inprint
The local nonprofit association Inprint will host several sessions with notable guest authors at this year’s Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series.’
E.L. Doctorow will read from his newest novel Homer & Langley, a book about two brothers who share a lush imaginary landscape in a mansion after one goes blind and the other returns from World War II, Oct. 19. Doctorow is noted for his World War I-era novel Ragtime, a tale of three American families, which has been produced as both a Tony Award-winning musical and an Academy Award-nominated film.
In January, Mary Karr, author of the New York Times best-seller The Liars’ Club, will treat listeners to a reading from Lit: A Memoir, her third volume of personal recollections.
Following her in the same month, newly acclaimed author David Wroblewski, will read from his novel The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, a tale about a mute boy who returns home to rural Wisconsin to prove that his uncle murdered his father. The book was chosen for Oprah’s Book Club, and was praised by the Washington Post and the New York Times.’
Also hosted by Inprint is the Cool Brains! reading series for children and young adult audiences.’
Children’s book author Kate DiCamillo will make an appearance and hold a reading of her books Oct. 18 at Pershing Middle School. DiCamillo wrote the award-winning novels Because of Winn-Dixie and The Tale of Despereaux, both of which have become full-length feature films. Admission is free, and the school is located at 3838 Blue Bonnet Blvd.
Inprint also holds forums and workshops for aspiring writers, and holds free book club meetings mediated by writer Victoria Ludwin. Anyone who signs up is free to join the group.
Cougar readings
Several readings will be held in association with NANO Fiction, a UH student organization that publishes a biannual magazine featuring short fiction submitted by local writers.’
This semester, NANO Fiction will be hosting several prose and poem readings featuring notable authors.’
Online writers Gene Morgan and Ryan Call, who penned the creepy post-apocalyptic short story Pocket Finger, will read their assorted works Oct. 13.
NANO Fiction will feature UH Creative Writing Program doctoral candidate Sasha West, as well as Andrew Brininstool, an English professor who won the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award, Nov. 10.’
Amanda Auchter, finalist for a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship and the Beatrice Hawley Award, will read her eccentric poetry Dec. 8. Her work will be joined by the gloomy, haunting prose of Andrew Kozma, a UH creative writing alumnus and winner of the Zone 3 First Book Award in 2007. All of these readings will be held at Kaboom Books at 3116 Houston Ave.
For more information on these readings, please visit www.inprinthouston.org, www.nanofiction.org or www.kaboombooks.com.
