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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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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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01 / 20
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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01 / 21
Start: 7:00 pm
The Rice Department of English and the Fondren Library kick off this year's
Cherry Reading Series with a visit from poet and
prize-winning essayist Eula Biss at Brazos Bookstore. Biss is the author of Note's From No Man's Land: American
Essays, which received the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. She
holds a BA in nonfiction writing from Hampshire College and an MFA in
nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. She is currently an
Artist in Residence at Northwestern University, where she teaches
nonfiction writing, and she is a founding editor of Essay Press, a new press dedicated to innovative
nonfiction. Her essays have recently appeared in The Best Creative
Nonfiction and the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary
Nonfiction as well as in The Believer, Gulf Coast,
Columbia, Ninth Letter, the North American Review, the Bellingham
Review, the Seneca Review, and Harper’s. Learn more by clicking on the links below.
http://www.eulabiss.net/
http://www.believermag.com/issues/200802/?read=article_biss
http://www.identitytheory.com/nonfiction/biss_relations.php
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01 / 22
Start: 7:00 pm
Through a collaboration with Brazos Bookstore, Gulf Coast Magazine is
proud to present the next three readers from the University of Houston’s
nationally-acclaimed graduate program in creative writing.
All readings are free and open to the public and begin at 7 p.m.
Will Donnelly is a second-year PhD student, writing instructor,
and fiction writer at the University of Houston. He holds an MFA from
the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. His
fiction has appeared in Smokelong Quarterly, Hobart, the Potomac Review, Quick Fiction, and Jump! Magazine. He grew up in Gainesville, Florida.
Briana Rochelle Olson is a second-year fiction student in the
University of Houston's MFA program. A native of Albuquerque, New
Mexico, she holds a BA from the University of Washington. Her writing
has appeared in Pindeldyboz and The American Drivel Review.
Rebecca Wadlinger has worked in intaglio printmaking, editing,
and Norwegian translation. She comes to Houston from the Michener
Center for Writers in Austin, where she organized and operated a
medical equipment lending library to redistribute prostheses and other
medical necessities. Her poetry can most recently be found in Anti-, The Cimarron Review, and the Best New Poets anthology.
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Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:30 pm
Brazos Bookstore's Emerging Writers Series opens in 2010 with Brian Hart, a young writer with Texas connections whose novel, Then Came the Evening, has been acquiring praise at a rate faster than the word "emerging" indicates. Publishers Weekly deems the book "a brilliant depiction of family"; novelist Jim Crace (Quarantine) calls it "an edgy, affecting debut"; and the acclaimed Colm Tóibín (Brooklyn) says of Hart's novel: "There is a deep feeling in the book for the gnarled landscape itself,
its stark beauty, but even greater emotion surrounds the characters
that inhabit it. Their efforts to live together and love each other are
depicted with a grace and understanding which is rare and memorable.”
Bandy Dorner, home from Vietnam, awakes with his car mired in a canal,
his cabin reduced to ashes, and his pregnant wife preparing to leave
town with her lover. Within moments, a cop lies bleeding on the road.
Eighteen
years later, Bandy is released from prison. His parents are gone, but
on the derelict family ranch, Bandy faces a different reunion. Tracy,
his now teenaged son, has come to claim the father he’s never known.
Iona, Bandy’s ex-wife, has returned on the heels of her son. Warily, desperately, they move in a
slow dance around each other, trying to piece back together a family
that never was; trying to discover if they belong together at all. With
unflinching honesty and restrained beauty, Brian Hart explores the
possibilities and limitations of his characters as they struggle toward
a shared future. Like a traditional Greek tragedy, suffused with the
mud, ice, and rock of the raw I daho landscape, Then Came the Ev
ening is tautly plotted and emotionally complex.
Brian Hart was born in Idaho in 1976. He has worked as a squirrel
trapper, dishwasher, line cook, janitor, house framer, welder,
commercial fisherman, camp crew for the US Forest Service, drywall
hanger, roofer, and hotel desk clerk. He has lived in Colorado, Oregon,
California, Montana, Alaska, and Las Vegas where he was a journeyman in
the Las Vegas Carpenter’s Union. In 2008 he received an MFA in fiction
from the Michener Center for Writers. He has been a fellow at Yaddo and
also at the MacDowell Colony. In 2005 he won the Keene Prize for
Literature, the largest student-writing prize in the world. Then Came the Evening is his first novel.
Please join us for an evening with Brian Hart.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
A riveting, psychologically rich family drama set in the American West, from a writer who has been compared to Cormac McCarthy.
Bandy
Dorner, home from Vietnam, awakes with his car mired in a canal, his
cabin reduced to ashes, and his pregnant wife preparing to leave town
with her lover. Within moments, a cop lies bleeding on the road. Eighteen
years later, Bandy is released from prison. His parents are gone, but
on the derelict family ranch, Bandy faces a different reunion. Tracy,
his now teenaged son, has come to claim the father he’s never known.
Iona, Bandy’s ex-wife, has returned on the heels of her son. All three
are damaged, hardened, haunted. But warily, desperately, they move in a
slow dance around each other, trying to piece back together a family
that never was; trying to discover if they belong together at all.
With
unflinching honesty and restrained beauty, Brian Hart explores the
possibilities and limitations of his characters as they struggle toward
a shared future. Like a traditional Greek tragedy, suffused with the
mud, ice, and rock of the raw I daho landscape, Then Came the Evening is tautly plotted and emotionally complex. The starred review in Publishers Weekly called it "[an] accomplished debut... a brilliant depiction of family... The
rugged Idaho backdrop adds sometimes stark, sometimes beautiful
counterpoints to the stripped-to-the-bone narrative. Most impressive is
Hart’s ability to conjure rich and conflicted characters in an uncommon
situation; his handling of the material is sublime.”
Born in Idaho, Brian Hart spent years working as a janitor,
carpenter, welder, and commercial fisherman before earning his MFA
from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at
Austin. He was the winner of the 2006 Keene Prize, the largest student
prize for literature at the University of Texas.
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David Wroblewski burst onto the literary scene last summer with his
debut novel The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. The 600+ page novel, a
“spellbinding first novel…nearly impossible to put down” (Kirkus Reviews),
follows the life of Edgar, a mute boy who grows up on a dog breeding farm in Wisconsin. Richard Russo
writes, “I doubt we’ll see a finer literary debut this year....Wroblewski’s got
storytelling talent to burn and a big, generous heart to go with it”; Stephen
King says, “I flat out loved The Story of Edgar Sawtelle....I don’t
reread many books, because life is too short. I will be rereading this one.” The
Washington Post Book World calls it a “big-hearted novel you can fall into,
get lost in and finally emerge from reluctantly, a little surprised that the real
world went on spinning.” The novel, a New York Times bestseller, was
chosen for Oprah’s Book Club. Wroblewski grew up in Wisconsin and wrote the book, he said,
because he wished he could read a novel about a boy and a dog “flavored with
the uncynical Midwestern sense of heart and purpose so familiar from my
childhood."
General admission tickets: $5, on sale January 4, 2010
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Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Brazos is extremely pleased to celebrate the launch of Lone Star Legend with award-winning Houston author Gwen Zepeda, who will give a reading and signing of her new novel at the event. Join us!
When Sandy Saavedra lands her dream job with the popular website
¡Latino Now!, she can't wait to write hard-hitting pieces to combat all
those stupid Latino stereotypes. While visions of Pulitzers dance in
her head, her editor in chief is suddenly laid off, replaced by the
infamous Dolores Villanueva O'Sullivan. Dolores has one mission: make
¡Latino Now! an internet phenomenon, no matter how many pandering puff
pieces she has to pack onto its pages. Sandy doesn't see how she can
keep this job without losing her soul, especially when she's sent to
Middle-of-Nowhere Texas to investigate the dumbest legend her people
ever created, the Chupacabra. She fears she's about to fail an
assignment -- and lose her job -- until she meets Tío Jaime, a grandfatherly
hermit who might be crazy, or might be the best thing that ever
happened to Sandy's career.
Gwendolyn Zepeda was born in Houston, Texas in 1971 and attended the
University of Texas at Austin. She began her writing career on the Web
in 1997, with her long-running site
gwendolynzepeda.com and as one of the founding writers of entertainment
site Television Without Pity. Her first book was a short-story
collection called To the Last Man I Slept with and All the Jerks Just Like Him
(Arte Público Press, 2004). Zepeda’s first children’s book, Growing Up with Tamales (Piñata Books) is a 2009 Charlotte Zolotow Award Highly Commended Title. Her first novel,
Houston, We Have a Problema (Grand Central Publishing, 2009) won praise from Publisher’s Weekly and Booklist for its wit and upbeat story.
Novelist Alisa Valdez Rodriguez calls Zepeda “a master wordsmith.” A two-time Houston Arts Alliance literary fellowship winner and
award-winning poet, Zepeda regularly lectures at universities
throughout Texas. Her upcoming books include another children’s book – Sunflowers (Piñata Books, 2009) – and a new novel from Grand Central Publishing called Lone Star Legend. Zepeda will also appear in Houston with Oscar Casares on May 3, as part of the Inprint Brown Reading Series for which Brazos is the proud bookseller.
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After seeing David Wroblewski on January 25, the Book Club is prepared to discuss his debut novel, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, which swept readers across the nation last summer. Click on the title below to learn more about the book; click here to view Wroblewski's website.
The First Wednesday Book Club meets on the first Wednesday of each month at 7 pm in the store to discuss a book recommended by someone in the group. We'll select the March book at the February meeting. Anyone is welcome to join us, so bring your friends. See what we've read in the past.
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Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Through a collaboration with Brazos Bookstore, Gulf Coast Magazine is
proud to present the next three readers from the University of Houston’s
nationally-acclaimed graduate program in creative writing.
All readings are free and open to the public and begin at 7 p.m.
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02 / 6
Start: 11:00 am
End: 5:00 pm
Brazos is proud to host our fourth biannual Local Authors Day, a group signing and meet-and-greet with local, regional, and self-published authors. Always on a Saturday, our busiest day of the week, Local Authors Day is set up like an open house so customers can speak one-on-one with authors throughout the day. Come support the local authors of the books below!
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Start: 11:00 am
This is event is completely sold out. Greg Mortenson will appear at Jones Hall at 7 pm on February 8. Click here for details.
TIME: 11:00 am Check-in/Reception
Luncheon begins promptly at 11:45
TICKETS: Single tickets: $100 and up
Sponsorships: $2,500/$5,000/$10,000 for a table of 10
We are proud to announce "Three Cups of Tea with Greg Mortenson" and invite you to join us in supporting this very important fundraising luncheon. Mortenson is a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, national and international award-winning and bestselling author of Three Cups of Tea and Stones into Schools. All proceeds from the event will benefit Central Asia Institute, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with the mission to promote and support community-based education, especially for girls, in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Ambassador Ryan Crocker, the newly appointed Dean of the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, will introduce and engage in a brief dialogue session with Mortenson. Crocker is a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and former Ambassador to Iraq and Pakistan.
A sponsorship of $2,500-$10,000 includes a copy of Mortenson's newest book, Stones into Schools, for each table guest and an invitation to a private VIP reception with Greg Mortenson and Ambassador Crocker prior to the luncheon.
To become an Underwriter, Sponsor, Table Host or to purchase a ticket, click here. For more information, call 713.599.1271 or email Meredith at PR Boutique.
With your help, Greg's mission for peace through education can continue. Please join us in supporting this extraordinary cause by attending "Three Cups of Tea with Greg Mortenson."
About Greg Mortenson:
Mortenson's remarkable story begins after an unsuccessful attempt to climb K2, the world's second tallest mountain. During the climb, Greg was injured and aided by poor local villagers in a nearby town. Learning that the children who helped him had never been to school yet desperately wanted an education, Mortenson has since dedicated his life to promoting education, especially for girls, in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. This experience is the basis of his bestselling novel, Three Cups of Tea. Mortenson is the co-founder of nonprofit Central Asia Institute and founder of Pennies for Peace, organizations which raise money for and awareness about the need to build foreign schools.
Called "a template for peace" by the Bloomsbury Review, Three Cups of Tea has revolutionized the way people think about improving the world and encourage peace through education. The book follows Mortenson's mission to fight terrorism and build nations one school at a time. Since its publication in 2006, Three Cups of Tea has sold more than 2.5 million copies in 29 languages. The book has become required reading for U.S. senior military commanders, U.S. Special Forces deploying to Afghanistan, Pentagon officers in counter-insurgency training, and Canadian Defense Ministry members.
Learn more:
- About Three Cups of Tea
- About Central Asia Institute
- About Stones Into Schools
Pre-purchase Mortenson's books below or buy them at the luncheon from your local Brazos Bookstore!
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Texans for Pennies for Peace presents
Three Cups of Tea author Greg Mortenson & the Houston Youth Leadership Awards
Enjoy an inspiring and entertaining evening as Nobel Prize Nominee Greg Mortenson, best known for his New York Times bestselling books Three Cups of Tea and Stones into Schools, recounts his remarkable journey from moutain climber to global humanitarian. Mortenson's non-profit Central Asia Institute promotes and supports community-based education, especially for girls, in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he has built over 130 schools.
From the beginning, Mortenson's efforts have been supported by school children and other organizations in the U.S. (and now around the world) through his Pennies for Peace program.
The Houston Youth Leadership Awards will feature Mortenson recognizing and interviewing selected young people from Houston to represent the many youths in the Houston area who have exhibited exceptional efforts as positive change agents in their communities and/or the world.
Tickets: $4.50-$55.00
BUY TICKETS HERE!
Call 866-468-7623 or visit www.texans4p4p.com for more information.
Brazos Bookstore will sell Mortenson's books during the event.
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