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Inprint Brown Reading Series: Mary Karr
Start: 7:30 pm

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Mary Karr’s debut book, The Liars’ Club, hit the New York
Times bestseller list in 1995 and stayed there for more than a year, almost
singlehandedly launching a revival of the memoir. Michiko Kakutani of The
New York Times called the book, which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for
First Nonfiction, “astonishing…one of the most dazzling and moving memoirs to
come along in years.” The Liars’ Club, a recounting of her apocalyptic
childhood in the small East Texas oilfield town of Leechfield, was followed in
2000 by the sequel, Cherry, a document of the high school years, which USA
Today calls “funny, eloquent, profane...no one tells stories like Karr.”
She has also written three books of poetry and her soon-to-be-published third
volume of recollections, Lit: A Memoir, from which she will read. Lit
chronicles her life as an adult and mother, as well as her time in “The Mental
Marriott” -- a loony bin so famous one Harvard grad suggested putting it on her
resume. Karr is the Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University
and has won Pushcart Prizes for both her poetry and essays; her poems
frequently appear in The New Yorker.

General admission tickets: $5, on sale December 1, 2009

Click here for tickets and details.

 

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Nick Flynn
Start: 7:00 pm

 

In 2007, during the months before Nick Flynn’s daughter’s birth, his
growing outrage and obsession with torture, exacerbated by the Abu
Ghraib photographs, led him to Istanbul to meet some of the Iraqi men
depicted in those photos. Haunted by a history of addiction, a
relationship with his unsteady father, and a longing to connect with
his mother who committed suicide, Flynn artfully interweaves in this
memoir passages from his childhood, his relationships with women, and
his growing obsession—a questioning of terror, torture, and the
political crimes we can neither see nor understand in post-9/11
American life. The time bomb of the title becomes an unlikely metaphor
and vehicle for exploring the fears and joys of becoming a father. Here
is a memoir of profound self-discovery—of being lost and found, of
painful family memories and losses, of the need to run from love, and
of the ability to embrace it again.

Nick Flynn is the award-winning author of Some Ether, Blind Huber, The Ticking is the Bomb and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. He teaches at the University of Houston.

Please join us in welcoming the wonderful multi-genre talent Nick Flynn back to Brazos Bookstore for a reading and signing.

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Robyn O'Brien
Start: 7:00 pm

 

Robyn O’Brien is not the most likely candidate for an anti-establishment crusade. A Houston native from a conservative family, this MBA and
married mother of four was not someone who gave much thought to
misguided government agencies and chemicals in our food—until the day
her youngest daughter had a violent allergic reaction to eggs, and
everything changed. The Unhealthy Truth is both the story of
how one brave woman chose to take on the system and a call to action
that shows how each of us can do our part and keep our own families
safe.

O’Brien turns to accredited research conducted in Europe
that confirms the toxicity of America’s food supply, and traces the
relationship between Big Food and Big Money that has ensured that the
United States is one of the only developed countries in the world to
allow hidden toxins in our food—toxins that can be blamed for the
alarming recent increases in allergies, ADHD, cancer, and asthma among
our children. Featuring recipes and an action plan for weaning your
family off dangerous chemicals one step at a time The Unhealthy Truth is a must-read for every parent—and for every concerned citizen—in America today.

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