RICHARD RODRIGUEZ, ABRAHAM VERGHESE
CONTINUE MARGARETT ROOT BROWN READING SERIES
Journalist Richard Rodriguez and physician Abraham Verghese will
continue the Margarett Root Brown Houston Reading Series, co-sponsored
by Inprint and the University of Houston, Monday, Nov. 8.
Doors open to the public at 6:45 p.m., and the reading begins at
7:30 p.m. General admission is $5, and the event is free for students
and senior citizens. Tickets are available only at the door the
night of the reading. Seating is limited; no late seating is available.
The Village Voice characterizes Mexican-American writer and Pacific
News Service editor Richard Rodriguez as “the best American
essayist” and an author who “writes a lonely line of
individualism, the grandeur and grief of the American soul.”
His trilogy on American public life includes “Hunger of Memory,”
“Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father”
and most recently “Brown: The Last Discovery of America.”
The Los Angeles Times writes, “Richard Rodriguez’s beautiful
new book, ‘Brown,’ is a meditation on America’s
family secrets.” Rodriguez received a Peabody Award for “NewsHour
Essays on American Life.”
Of Abraham Verghese’s “The Tennis Partner,” a
New York Times Notable Book, Natalie Goldberg writes, “Beautifully
written, it broke my heart and made me happy all at the same time.”
His highly acclaimed first book, “My Own Country”is
an account of Verghese’s practice with rural Tennessee AIDS
patients in the 1980s. Time calls the work “a fine mix of
compassion and precision.” The Ethiopian-born, South Asian
physician has earned praise in publications ranging from Sports
Illustrated to the New England Journal of Medicine. Verghese is
currently director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Humanities
at UT-Health Science Center in San Antonio. His first novel will
be published in 2005.
The Margarett Root Brown Houston Reading Series, now in its 24th
season and presented in association with the UH Creative Writing
Program and the Alley Theatre, brings the world’s leading
writers to Houston. Remaining writers for the 2004-5 series are
Jeffrey Eugenides, Eavan Boland, Paul Muldoon, Judith Ortiz Cofer,
Elena Poniatowska and Jonathan Franzen.
For information, call 713-521-2026 or visit http://www.inprint-inc.org.
WHO: |
Reading Series with Richard Rodriguez and Abraham
Verghese |
WHAT: |
UH and Inprint’s Margarett Root Brown Houston Reading
Series |
WHEN: |
Monday, Nov. 8
6:45 p.m. Doors open
7:30 p.m. Reading begins |
WHERE: |
Alley Theatre, 615 Texas Ave. |
For more information about UH visit the universitys Newsroom at www.uh.edu/admin/media/newsroom.
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