H IGHLIGHTS FROM THE S EASON
Jonathan Franzen
Sandra Cisneros
Salman Rushdie
Anthony Doerr
Tracy K. Smith
Mat Johnson & Helen Oyeyemi
Mary Karr
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Bookish: Big names part of series Bookish from page G1 include reserved seats, a spot at the front of the book-signing line signed copies of “Purity,” and more — and the annual Poets & Writers Ball, a fundraiser that supplies close to one-third of Jonathan Franzen Sandra Cisneros Inprint’s annual budget, which this year is $1.2 million. This season’s reading se- Salman Rushdie ries — nine authors over seven evenings — mixes big names with going-to-be-big names. The readings will be held at the Wortham Center’s Cullen Theater or Rice University’s Stude Concert Hall. Each will be followed by an onstage interview with a local writer, a book sale and book signing. Here’s a look at the coming season: Associated Press Jonathan Franzen opens the series with “Purity,” on Sept. 21. Inprint 2015-16 On the run from her overbearing Cisneros’, Smith’s recalls her Doors open at 6:45 p.m.; mother, aimless college gradu- suburban childhood in Califor- ate Pip Tyler moves to Bolivia readings begin at 7:30 p.m. nia and her special bond with Readings are held at the to work for a WikiLeaks-esque her mother, who came of age in outfit and then to Denver to Wortham Theater Center, 501 the civil rights era. Texas, and Stude Concert Hall, write for a magazine. But be- Local author and University cause this is Franzen — National Rice University. of Houston professor Mat John- Book Award-winning author of son appears March 28, along Season tickets, $180, are on sale “The Corrections” and “Free- with Helen Oyeyemi, a Nigerian- now at inprinthouston.org. Gen- dom,” formerly at odds but now born British novelist. Johnson eral admission tickets, $5, will be friends with Oprah Winfrey will read from “Loving Day,” his available at the door. — the text goes several subplots recent novel about a mixed-race and many characters deep. “You man who identifies as black but don’t necessarily see how the Prize-winning “Midnight’s Chil- looks white. Showtime has op- pieces are going to fit together,” dren” and “The Satanic Verses” tioned the book for a television Levy said. — which famously drew a fatwa series. Oyeyemi will read from Speaking of pieces fitting from the Iranian government — “What Is Y ours Is Not Yours,” together, Sandra Cisneros brings Rushdie enjoys a long-standing her new novel-in-linked-stories her forthcoming memoir, “ A relationship with Inprint and coming in March 2016. In this House of My Own,” to Inprint Houston. He just keeps coming work, Oyeyemi plays with the on Oct. 12. “It’s not a straight back. notion of keys to unlock secrets memoir, it’s more of a collage Anthony Doerr, who won the about her characters and their about her life and the life of a 2015 Pulitzer Prize for his novel lives. writer,” said Krupa Parikh, “ All the Light We Cannot See,” The final night of the season, Inprint’s marketing director. launches the first event of the April 18, delivers two poets: UH The memoir compiles true new year, on Jan. 25. A fixture professor Tony Hoagland, read- stories and nonfiction pieces by on best-seller lists for more than ing from his recent collection Cisneros; a self-critique at the a year, Doerr’s book delivers a “ Application for Release From beginning of each section gives World War II story about a blind the Dream,” and Sharon Olds, readers a sense of place and French girl and a German or- who won a Pulitzer for “Stag’s helps put her life in perspective. phan boy who learns how to fix Leap,” a collection of poems Some math is required to radios. “It’s written with a lot of about her divorce. Hoagland, solve the title of Salman’s Rush- humanity,” said Marilyn Jones, who writes with candor and hu- die’s forthcoming story collec- Inprint’s associate director. “Y ou mor, positions his collection as a tion, “Two Y ears Eight Months can feel the momentum building critique of the American Dream. and Twenty-Eight Nights.” as you realize their lives are go- Olds writes frankly about sex, can. Rushdie, who appears with ing to conflict and converge.” divorce and children. Both Inprint on Nov. 9, rifgs ofg “One On Feb. 29, Pulitzer Prize- poets, Levy said, are extremely Thousand and One Nights” in winning poet Tracy K. Smith accessible to people who don’t this fresh collection of tall tales. will read from her forthcoming read a lot of poetry. The author of many books, in- prose memoir, “Ordinary Light.” cluding “Joseph Anton,” Booker A more traditional memoir than maggie.galehouse@chron.com
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