BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Inprint - ECPv4.9.12//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Inprint X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://inprinthouston.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Inprint BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250324T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250324T210000 DTSTAMP:20250321T112147 CREATED:20240726T004309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250304T190541Z UID:51091-1742844600-1742850000@inprinthouston.org SUMMARY:Inprint Emma Donoghue Reading DESCRIPTION: \nEmma Donoghue will read from her newest novel The Paris Express\, followed by an an-stage conversation with bestselling author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. The evening will conclude with a book sale and signing. The event is presented as part of the 2024/2025 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series.   \nEmma Donoghue\, author of 16 novels\, is\, according to Colum McCann\, “one of the great literary ventriloquists of our time. Her imagination is kaleidoscopic.” She is best known for her novels Slammerkin\, Life Mask\, Stir-Fry\, Hood\, and Room\, which sold more than a million copies worldwide\, was a New York Times Best Book of 2010\, and was a finalist for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes. Michael Cunningham called Room “that rarest of entities\, an entirely original work of art. I mean it as the highest possible praise when I tell you that I can’t compare it to any other book. Suffice to say that it’s potent\, darkly beautiful\, and revelatory.” She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay based on the novel and has also written drama for stage and radio. Her nonfiction works include Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature\, which won the Stonewall Non-Fiction Award from the American Library Association. \nDonoghue comes to Houston to share her new book The Paris Express\, a propulsive novel set on a train packed with a cast of characters who hail from as far apart as Russia\, Ireland\, Algeria\, Pennsylvania\, and Cambodia. Inspired by the 1895 disaster at the Paris Montparnasse train station that was captured in a series of surreal\, extraordinary photographs\, The Paris Express\, according to her publisher\, “is an evocative masterpiece that effortlessly captures the politics\, glamour\, chaos\, and speed that marked the end of the 19th century.” \nChitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning writer\, activist\, and professor of Creative Writing at University of Houston\, and the author of 21 books such as Mistress of Spices\, Sister of My Heart\, Palace of Illusions\, The Forest of Enchantments\, and The Last Queen. Her newest novel\, Independence\, depicts the lives of three sisters during India’s freedom struggle. \n URL:https://inprinthouston.org/event/inprint-emma-donoghue-reading/ LOCATION:Congregation Emanu El\, 1500 Sunset Boulevard\, Houston\, TX\, 77005 CATEGORIES:2024/2025 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://inprinthouston.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Donoghue-Emma_-Mark-Raynes-Roberts_cropped-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR