DEBORAH EISENBERG “simply writes like no one else,” proclaims Elle magazine, and is “one of the most important fiction writers now at work,” according to The New York Times Book Review. She is the author of four short story collections, including Transactions in a Foreign Currency, Under the 82nd Airborne, All Around Atlantis, and Twilight of the Superheroes. In 2010, her four short-story collections were reprinted as The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg which received the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Vanity Fair…

MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM “writes some of the most beautiful prose in contemporary American fiction, and his gorgeous way with words is on full display in his new novel, The Snow Queen,” according to The Daily Beast. Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times notes, “Cunningham’s resonant new novel . . . is arguably [his] most original and emotionally piercing book to date… [giving] us an intimate sense of his characters’ daily lives, while situating their hopes and dreams within the context…

KAREN RUSSELL “is arguably our greatest fantasist writing serious fiction today,” declares NPR, and People magazine writes, “Karen Russell is a storyteller with a voice like no other.” Her debut story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, published when she was in her twenties, was called “original and astonishing, joyful and unsettling” in a starred Booklist review. Her novel Swamplandia! was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and selected by The New York Times as one…

General admission tickets for $5 will be available at the door starting at 6:45 pm. Free rush tickets for students and senior citizens will also be available starting at 6:45 pm. MARY SZYBIST—who, according to the Christian Science Monitor, “with her intelligence and understated grace … may become one of the best-known writers of her generation”—caught the poetry world’s attention when she received the 2013 National Book Award for her second collection Incarnadine. The Los Angeles Review of Books called the…

Tickets for this reading are sold out. No tickets will be available at the door.   KAZUO ISHIGURO “is a master storyteller, in a class of his own making,” declares The Independent, and The New York Times calls him “an original and remarkable genius.” Born in Japan and raised in England, Ishiguro is one of the most celebrated writers of our time. He has been nominated for the Man Booker Prize four times and won it in 1989 for his international…

CRISTINA HENRÍQUEZ’s The Book of Unknown Americans, is, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, “a remarkable novel that every American should read.” Set amongst a diverse immigrant community in an apartment building in Delaware, the Washington Post praises it as “a deeply stirring story …. with a simple, unadorned prose that rises to the level of poetry …. without a trace of sentimentality, without an iota of self-indulgence or dogma … The Book of Unknown Americans leaves you in thrall…

GEOFF DYER “is to essays what Anthony Bourdain is to food,” according to the Los Angeles Times. Publishers Weekly calls him “a modern Montaigne.” “One of our greatest living critics, not of the arts but of life itself, and one of our most original writers” (New York Magazine), he is the author of six genre-defying books, including But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz, The Missing of the Somme, Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence, and the award-winning Yoga…

JONATHAN FRANZEN is “one of those exceptional writers whose works define an era and a generation, and his books demand to be read” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). He is the celebrated author of four novels and five works of nonfiction and translation. Franzen became a literary star with the publication of The Corrections, which won the National Book Award, sold three million copies, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/Faulkner Award. “Funny…

SALMAN RUSHDIE—for whom “the pen is a magician’s wand” (Financial Times)—is the internationally celebrated author of 11 novels, including Midnight’s Children, which won the Booker Prize and the “Best of the Booker” and was called “one of the most important books to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation” (The New York Review of Books). His other highly regarded works include the novels The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Enchantress of Florence, Shame, Haroun and the…

INPRINT CRAFT TALK: Please note that earlier in the day on Monday, January 25, 2016, from 1 – 2 pm, Anthony Doerr will give a craft talk and answer questions, free and open to the public, at the University of Houston Honors College Commons, located on the 2nd floor of the M. D. Anderson Memorial Library on the University of Houston campus, entrance #1 off of Calhoun Drive. No tickets are needed for this Inprint Craft Talk. ANTHONY DOERR’s New York Times…

MAT JOHNSON “is one of the funniest writers in America…. [He] gets at the heart of what it means to be a person—and he does so with more skill, generosity and, yes, love, than just about anyone else writing fiction today” (NPR). Johnson is author of four novels, including Pym, Hunting in Harlem, winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and Drop; the nonfiction novella The Great Negro Plot; and three graphic novels, including Incognegro. Dwight Garner in The New York Times says his most recent novel Loving…

  DUE TO THE THREAT OF FLOODING, THIS READING AND CRAFT TALK HAVE BEEN CANCELLED. WE APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE THIS MAY CAUSE.  INPRINT CRAFT TALK: Please note that on Monday, April 18, 2016, from 1 – 2 pm, Sharon Olds will give a craft talk and answer questions, free and open to the public, at the University of Houston Honors College Commons, located on the 2nd floor of the M. D. Anderson Memorial Library on the University of Houston campus,…

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER burst onto the literary scene in 2002 with his debut novel Everything Is Illuminated. “Not since Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange has the English language been simultaneously mauled and energized with such brilliance and brio,” wrote Francine Prose in The New York Times. The novel, which was made into a feature film, won The Guardian First Book Prize and the National Jewish Book Award. His second novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close—also made into an Oscar-nominated film—became an international bestseller. Foer comes to Houston on a limited tour to…