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New Writers Project

October 14, 2018

Edward Carey Book Launch 7 p Tuesday 10/23 @ APL

​Join us for the launch of Little
by Prof. Edward Carey 
​7 pm Tuesday, October 23
at Austin Central Library
​Facebook event here
C​o-sponsored by The Library Foundation and Texas Book Festival​
 
​Prof. ​Carey will appear in conversation with fellow writer (and wife), ​Prof. ​Elizabeth McCracken. The book launch coincides with an art exhibition featuring illustrations from the novel and ​Prof. ​Carey’s other works. After the talk, ​Prof. ​Carey will sign books, available for sale courtesy of BookPeople.

ABOUT LITTLE: In 1761, a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris, where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, pale son. Together, they convert an abandoned monkey house into an exhibition hall for wax heads, and the spectacle becomes a sensation. As word of her artistic talent spreads, Marie is called to Versailles, where she tutors a princess and saves Marie Antoinette in childbirth. But outside the palace walls, Paris is roiling: The revolutionary mob is demanding heads, and… at the wax museum, heads are what they do. Edward Carey’s Little is a darkly endearing cavalcade of a novel—a story of art, class, determination, and how we hold on to what we love.

ABOUT EDWARD CAREY: Edward Carey is a novelist, visual artist, and playwright. His acclaimed YA series, the Iremonger Trilogy, was a fan favorite, with citations for Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews. He is also the author of two adult novels, Observatory Mansions and Alva & Irva. Born in England, he now teaches at the University of Texas in Austin, where he lives with his wife, the author Elizabeth McCracken, and their family.

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October 3, 2018

Sally Ball & Jan Vičar Reading & Artist’s Talk 7 pm 10/30 @ Glickman

Please join us for a reading and artist’s talk by
 
Sally Ball & Jan Vičar
 
7 pm Tuesday, October 30
in the Glickman Conference Center (RLP 1.302B)
 
Co-sponsored by the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) and the New Writers Project
 
U.S. poet Sally Ball and Czech artist Jan Vičar will read from, present, and discuss HOLD, their collaborative, eco-informed artist’s book.
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Poet Sally Ball and Czech linocut printmaker Jan Vičar began a collaboration in Fall 2015. Ball’s writing departs from an idea explored in Roy Scranton’s ecological lament Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, namely that our obsession with thriving (from a Norwegian root word that means grasp or—hold—) is intensifying our environmental crisis. The poem, HOLD, ranges over many topics: climate anxiety, corporate doublespeak, international migration, nuclear energy, the (in this context) counter-intuitive beauty of the world. Vičar has created a limited-edition hand-sewn book of about 60 pages measuring 24” x 18” (serious coffee table required—), in which the poem is laid out in hand-cut text alongside images inspired by or illustrative of the text. He has also made outtake floor-to-ceiling works that are part of this project. The prints and text have been exhibited in Austria, France, Germany, Spain, and Tokyo, but this is the first time the assembled book has been presented anywhere.

Sally Ball is the author of Hold Sway (forthcoming 2019), Wreck Me (2013), and Annus Mirabilis (2005), all from Barrow Street. She is an associate professor of English at Arizona State University and an associate director of Four Way Books. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Harvard Review, Scoundrel Time, Tin House, and elsewhere. She lives in Phoenix.

Jan Vičar studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He has exhibited his work around the world—across Europe, in Japan, the United States, and South Africa; and it is held in collections including the National Gallery in Washington, DC. He has twice won Prague’s Print of the Year in the experimental category. “The characteristic feature of his work is represented by the combination of traditional techniques with less conventional, even experimental procedures.” Marcel Fišer, Czech art historian. He lives off the grid, outside of Telč in the Czech Republic.

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October 1, 2018

Leni Zumas Reading 7 p.m. 10/15 @ Joynes

Please join us for a reading of fiction by
LENI ZUMAS
7 pm Monday, October 15, at the Joynes Reading Room.
 
Facebook event here.
 
Co-sponsored by the New Writers Project and the Joynes Reading Room/Plan II Honors Program
 
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Leni Zumas’s novel Red Clocks (Little, Brown, 2018) was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, an Indie Next pick, and one of Esquire‘s Most Anticipated Books of 2018. Leni is also the author of Farewell Navigator: Stories (Open City, 2008) and The Listeners (Tin House, 2012), which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award.

Her fiction and essays have appeared in Granta, The Cut, The Sunday Times (UK), Portland Monthly, Tin House, Lenny Letter, The Collagist, The Elephants, & elsewhere. She has received grants and fellowships from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Regional Arts & Culture Council, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Leni lives in Portland, Oregon, where she directs the creative writing program at Portland State University.

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September 19, 2018

Sabrina Orah Mark & Elizabeth McCracken Reading 7 p.m. 10/2 @ Malvern

Please join us for a fiction reading by
 
Sabrina Orah Mark
&
Elizabeth McCracken
7 p.m. Tuesday, October 2, at Malvern Books.
 
Facebook event here.
 
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Sabrina Orah Mark will be reading from her first novel, Wild Milk, and Elizabeth McCracken will read from her fiction.

Sabrina Orah Mark is the author of the poetry collections The Babies and Tsim Tsum. Wild Milk is her first book of fiction. She lives in Athens, Georgia with her husband, Reginald McKnight, and their two sons.

Elizabeth McCracken is the author of six books: Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry, The Giant’s House, Niagara Falls All Over Again, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, and the forthcoming Bowlaway. She lives in Austin, where she is the James A. Michener Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Texas.

Filed Under: Faculty News, News & Events, Readings

April 3, 2018

Jeff VanderMeer Reading: 7 pm Mon., 4/16 @ Joynes

Please join us for a fiction reading by
 
Jeff VanderMeer
 
7 pm Monday, April 16 
in the Joynes Reading Room.
 
Facebook event here.
 
 
Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning writer of science fiction and fantasy novels, including THE SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY, ANNIHILATION (now a major motion picture), and, most recently, BORNE.

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