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\"\"Free and open to the public<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reading followed by audience questions and a book sale and signing.\u00a0For more information and to order a copy of The Ensemble<\/em> for pick up at the event, click here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Aja Gabel is a former recipient of the Inprint Alexander Prize in Fiction, an Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Nonfiction, and an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor\/Fondren Foundation Fellowship. Her stories can be found in New England Review<\/em>, New Ohio Review<\/em>, Glimmer Train<\/em>, BOMB<\/em>, and elsewhere. Her lyric essay \u201cThe Sparrows in France\u201d earned an honorable mention in Best American Essays 2015<\/em>, and her short story \u201cLittle Fish\u201d is currently being adapted into a feature film. A former cellist, Aja has also been the recipient of fellowships from the Sewanee Writers\u2019\u2019 Conference, Literary Arts Oregon, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where she was a fellow in fiction. She has a MFA from University of Virginia, where she edited Virginia Quarterly Review<\/em>. While working on her PhD at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, she edited Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts <\/em>and taught workshops for Inprint, as well as live tweeted for us at readings.<\/p>\n

She comes to Houston to share her debut novel, published by Riverhead Books, The Ensemble<\/em>. Nylon<\/em> calls it, “A page-turner of a debut….\u00a0The Ensemble<\/em>\u00a0is set in the world of classical music (so, yes, this is a good book for all you\u00a0Mozart in the Jungle<\/em>\u00a0fans) and tracks the way the friends, who comprise the Van Ness Quartet, navigate their youthful inexperience, riotous success, professional failures, and all of the other things that come with sky-rocketing ambition and a reliance on other people.” Mat Johnson says, \u201cThe Ensemble<\/em>\u00a0deserves a standing ovation.\u00a0A gripping tale of four musician’s journeys through discord and harmony, life and love.\u00a0Aja Gabel is a brilliant young writer with the rare gift of an old soul.”<\/p>\n

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