Join us for a special event presented by Inprint, The Menil Collection, and Rice University Department of English, featuring renowned author Hari Kunzru and his latest novel, Blue Ruin. After his reading, Hari will be in conversation with Rice professor and local author Rosa Boshier González. A book sale and signing will follow. 

According to The New York Times Book Review, in Blue Ruin “Kunzru brings his singular mix of dread and intrigue to his latest fiction, an intricate tale of artistic creation, greed and exploitation set in upstate New York under the specter of Covid.”

Hari Kunzru is the author of six novels, Red Pill, White Tears, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, and The Impressionist. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and writes the “Easy Chair” column for Harper’s Magazine. He is an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has been a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at New York University and is the host of the podcast Into the Zone, from Pushkin Industries.

Rosa Boshier González is a writer and editor from Los Angeles. Her fiction, essays, and art criticism appear in Guernica, Catapult, Joyland, Literary Hub, The New York Times, Artforum, Hyperallergic, The Rumpus, The Guardian, LARB, and The Washington Post, among others. González is a PhD candidate in creative writing and literature at the University of Houston, where she holds an Inprint Fondren Foundation Fellowship and received the Inprint Marion Barthelme Gulf Coast Prize. She has taught writing, Latine studies, and art history at The California Institute of the Arts, Otis College of Art and Design, and Pacific Northwest College of Art. In the fall she will be a lecturer in the English Department at Rice University.

As always, Menil programs are free and open to all.