For more information on season subscriptions, click here. Booker Prize finalist Mohsin Hamid will read from his new novel The Last White Man, followed by an on-stage conversation with Houston author, American Book Award winner, and UH Creative Writing Program faculty member Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. The evening will conclude with a book sale and signing. All audience members will be required to wear a mask while in the theatre. Parking will be available in the Alley Theatre Garage, which…

Booker Prize nominee and breakout star Leila Mottley will read from her new novel Nightcrawling, followed by an on-stage conversation with acclaimed ABC-13 News journalist Melanie Lawson. The evening will conclude with a book sale and signing. Parking will be available in the Alley Theatre Garage, which you can enter off Louisiana Street. For a map with the parking location, click here. For more information about the Inprint Leila Mottley Online Rebroadcast, click here. BOOK DISCOUNTS: Our partners at Brazos Bookstore are…

Advanced tickets for this reading are now sold out. Any unclaimed seats will be released to the general public at 7:25 pm. For more information about the Inprint Abraham Verghese Online Rebroadcast on Thursday, May 11, 7:30 pm CT, click here. New York Times bestseller Abraham Verghese will read from his new novel The Covenant of Water, followed by an on-stage conversation with Houston author and physician Ricardo Nuila. Due to the risk of COVID-19, Verghese will not be doing a…

James McBride will read from his new novel The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, followed by an on-stage conversation with acclaimed ABC-13 News journalist Melanie Lawson. The evening will conclude with a book sale and signing. The event is presented as part of the 2023/2024 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series.  JAMES MCBRIDE has been called “a modern-day Mark Twain” (The New York Times) and was awarded the National Book Award for The Good Lord Bird. He is the author of…

CANCELLED: The Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series event featuring National Book Award winner Elizabeth Acevedo, originally scheduled for Monday, April 15, at 7:30 pm at the Alley Theatre was cancelled due to major travel delays. Despite our best efforts, conflicts with Elizabeth’s plans prevent us from rescheduling this event. Our sincere apologies for any inconvenience or disappointment this may cause. Elizabeth Acevedo will read from her new novel Family Lore, followed by an on-stage conversation with celebrated Houston author…

Danez Smith will read from their new collection Bluff, followed by an on-stage conversation with 2022-23 Texas Poet Laureate Lupe Mendez. 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.  “A Danez Smith poem,” according to Guernica, “doesn’t just bring imagery to life; it pulses on the page.” Smith is the author of four previous poetry collections, including Homie, a finalist for the National Book Critics…

Paul Lynch will read from his novel Prophet Song followed by an on-stage conversation with Houston author and former Houston Chronicle Book Editor Maggie Galehouse. 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.  Paul Lynch is the author of the award-winning novels Red Sky in Morning, The Black Snow, Grace, and Beyond the Sea. Grace was chosen as the 2018 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and shortlisted for…

Richard Powers will read from his new novel Playground followed by an on-stage conversation with author and National Book Critics Circle finalist Lacy M. Johnson. 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.   Richard Powers, a MacArthur “genius” fellow, “demonstrates a remarkable ability to tell dramatic, emotionally involving stories while delving into subjects many readers would otherwise find arcane…. [such as] genetics, pharmaceuticals, artificial intelligence,…

Rachel Kushner will read from her new novel Creation Lake,  followed by an on-stage conversation with Houston-based writer, performer, and educator Christa M. Forster. 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.   Rachel Kushner is, according to George Saunders, “a young master.” Author of the internationally acclaimed novels The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers and Telex from Cuba, as well as a volume of short stories The…

Yuri Herrera will read from his newest novel Season of the Swamp, followed by an on-stage conversation with author and professor José F. Aranda, Jr. 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.   Yuri Herrera, according to writer Valeria Luiselli, “must be a thousand years old. He must have travelled to hell, and heaven, and back again. He must have once been a…

Jennifer Chang and Naomi Shihab Nye will read from their poetry collections An Authentic Life and Grace Notes: Poems about Families. 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.  Jennifer Chang, according to Shelf Awareness, has “a poetic style that is wild, unfettered and unpredictable, yet devastatingly precise in the emotions it dredges up.” Chang is the author of the collections The History of…

Katie Kitamura and Karen Russell will read from their new novels Audition and The Antidote followed by an an-stage conversation with fiction writer Brenda Peynado. 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.  Katie Kitamura is, according to Alexandra Schwartz in The New Yorker, “a writer with a visionary, visual imagination and a bold symbolist streak.” She is the author of four acclaimed novels, including A…

Kiran Desai will read from her new novel The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, followed by an on-stage conversation led by Houston writer Kartika Budhwar. The evening will conclude with a book sale and signing. The event is presented as part of the 2025/2026 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series.  Kiran Desai is the author of novel The Inheritance of Loss, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, making Desai at the time the youngest woman…

Álvaro Enrigue will read from his new novel Now I Surrender, followed by an on-stage conversation with author and professor José F. Aranda, Jr. The evening will conclude with a book sale and signing. The event is presented as part of the 2025/2026 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series.  Álvaro Enrigue “belongs to many literary traditions at once and shows a great mastery of them all,” according to the great Latin American writer Carlos Fuentes. A celebrated Mexican novelist and…

Yann Martel will read from his new novel Son of Nobody, followed by an on-stage conversation led by Houston author and former Houston Chronicle Book Editor Maggie Galehouse. The evening will conclude with a book sale and signing. The event is presented as part of the 2025/2026 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series.  Yann Martel is the celebrated Canadian author of Life of Pi, a Booker Prize winning international bestseller made into an Academy Award winning film and successful Broadway play. Born…