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Tickets for this reading are SOLD OUT.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

PLEASE NOTE:\u00a0Even though tickets for the Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series event featuring Annie Proulx at 7:30 pm, Wortham Center, are sold out, there will be an Inprint Craft Talk\/Q&A with Annie Proulx, free and open to the public, on Monday, January 23, 1 pm, at the University of Houston Honors College Commons, M. D. Anderson Library, entrance #1 off of Calhoun Road. The reading will be video taped in partnership with Houston Public Media, and will be available for viewing on the Inprint Archive of Readings<\/a> and at houstonpublicmedia.org\/inprint<\/a>\u00a0a few days after the reading.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"barkskins-9780743288781_hr\"ANNIE PROULX is one of the most respected authors of our time.\u00a0The Boston Globe\u00a0<\/em>writes, \u201cFew writers feel equally at home in the novel and the short story,\u201d and\u00a0The\u00a0<\/em>Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/em>\u00a0says, \u201cProulx goes where few others would.\u201d\u00a0Her novel\u00a0The Shipping News<\/em>\u00a0made her an international celebrity in the 1990s, winning the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the\u00a0Irish Times<\/em>\u00a0International Fiction Prize.\u00a0USA Today<\/em>\u00a0described it as \u201calive, funny, a little threatening; packed with brilliantly original images … and, now and then, a sentence that simply takes your breath away.\u201d\u00a0Her story \u201cBrokeback Mountain,\u201d which originally appeared in\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0and won O. Henry and National Magazine Awards, was made into an Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning film. Her other works include the PEN\/Faulkner Award-winning\u00a0Postcards<\/em>,\u00a0The New Yorker\u00a0<\/em>Book Award-winning\u00a0Close Range: Wyoming Stories,<\/em> and\u00a0Bird Cloud: A Memoir<\/em>.\u00a0Proulx comes to Houston to share her latest novel\u00a0Barkskins<\/em>, a saga which, with its vivid cast of characters spanning 300 years, serves as \u201ca memorable plea against deforestation,\u201d according to the\u00a0Houston Chronicle<\/em>.\u00a0Booklist\u00a0writes,<\/em> in a starred review, \u201cProulx\u2019s signature passion and concern for nature \u2026 charge[s] this rigorously researched, intrepidly imagined, complexly plotted, and vigorously written multigenerational epic \u2026. nothing less than a sylvan\u00a0Moby-Dick<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0Publishers Weekly<\/em>\u00a0calls it\u00a0\u201ca monumental achievement, one that will perhaps be remembered as her finest work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reading followed by an on-stage interview, book sale and signing.
\nTo order books by Annie Proulx\u00a0at a discount click here<\/a>.
\nTo submit questions for Annie Proulx\u00a0click here<\/a>.
\nTo learn more about the 2016\/2017 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Series click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

LINKS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Annie Proulx’s bloody new novel\u00a0Barkskins\u00a0<\/i>is about more than deforestation,” by Ari Shapiro, NPR<\/i> interview, June 10, 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Annie Proulx’s long-awaited, spectacular new novel\u00a0Barkskins<\/i>” by Ron Charles,\u00a0The Washington Post\u00a0<\/i>review, June 6, 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Annie Proulx: ‘I’ve had a life. I see how slippery things can be.'” by Lucy Rock,\u00a0The Guardian <\/i>interview, June 5, 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

“This Week in Fiction: Annie Proulx discusses her upcoming novel Barkskins<\/i>” by Cressida Leyshon,\u00a0The New Yorker <\/i>interview,\u00a0March 14, 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cShelter Beneath an Open Sky,\u201d by Alexandra Fuller, The New York Times Sunday Book Review<\/em>, January 7, 2011. Review of Bird Cloud: A Memoir<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cAnnie Proulx, The Art of Fiction No. 199,\u201d interviewed by Christopher Cox, The Paris Review,<\/em> Spring 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Half-Skinned Steer,\u201d by E. 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