Inprint Brown Reading Series: Oscar Casares and Gwendolyn Zepeda
May 3 2010 7:30 pm
Oscar Casares was raised in Brownsville and is a life-long resident of Texas, where his collection of short stories, Brownsville: Stories and now his first novel, Amigoland, are set. Marilynne Robinson describes Casares’ fiction as “clear-eyed and fresh, full of sweet gravity and pensive humor.” Publishers Weekly says that Casares’ stories, “probing underneath the surface of Tex-Mex culture, with their wisecracking, temperamental, obsessive middle-aged men and their dramas straight from neighborhood gossip, are in the direct line of descent from Mark Twain and Ring Lardner.” Casares is the recipient of a 2006 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and now teaches creative writing at the University of Texas in Austin, where he lives with his wife and young son.
Gwedolyn Zepeda, a native Houstonian, is the author of the story collection, To the Last Man I Slept with and All the Jerks Just Like Him, and the debut novel, Houston, We Have a Problema, as well as the popular blog, gwenworld.com. The San Antonio Current says of Zepeda’s story collection that it is a “brutally candid, laugh-out-loud, feminist, barrio manifesto that sometimes reads like suggestive science fiction cross-pollinated with Tess of the d’Urbervilles.” Booklist says of her most recent work, “the vibrant Houston setting and the novel’s emphasis on Tex-Mex culture, art, and folklore add unusual and alluring touches to this debut novel.” Zepeda will read from her new novel, Lone Star Legend, also set in Texas, which follows aspiring journalist Sandy Saavedra in her efforts to combat Latino stereotypes. Zepeda also writes children’s books for Arte Público Press.
General admission tickets: $5, on sale April 12, 2010
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Location:
- Street:
- Alley Theatre
- Additional:
- 615 Texas Ave.
- City:
- Houston ,
- Province:
- Texas
- Postal Code:
- 77002
- Country:
- United States
