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\"hpm-fy2017full_2line\"Although tickets for this reading are sold out, Inprint and Houston Public Media will be live streaming the reading on inprinthouston.org<\/A> and houstonpublicmedia.org\/inprint<\/A>. Please join us online if you do not have a ticket to the reading so you can also enjoy the event\u00a0on Monday, October 17, 7:30 pm.\u00a0<\/STRONG><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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\"FatesLAUREN GROFF is, according to James Wood in\u00a0The New Yorker<\/EM>, \u201can original writer whose books are daringly nonconformist.\u201d Her latest novel, the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/EM>bestseller\u00a0Fates and Furies<\/EM>, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was named a Best Book of 2015 by\u00a0The Washington Post,\u00a0Time,<\/EM> NPR, and others.\u00a0The San Francisco Chronicle<\/EM>\u00a0calls\u00a0Fates and Furies<\/EM>\u00a0\u201ca delirious, exhilarating, and heartbreaking ride through the decades of one fable-like marriage.\u201d\u00a0Groff\u2019s other two critically acclaimed novels are the New York Times<\/EM> Notable Book Arcadia<\/EM> and the Orange Prize for New Writers finalist The Monsters of Templeton<\/EM>, called \u201cfabulously inventive\u2026extracting characters from classic novels, adding two cups of history, a quart of imagination, and stirring vigorously\u201d (The Christian Science Monitor)<\/EM>. She is also the author of the story collection Delicate Edible Birds<\/EM>.<\/P>
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\"CommonwealthANN PATCHETT, on\u00a0Time\u2019s<\/EM>\u00a02012 \u201c100 Most Influential People in the World\u201d list, is author of\u00a0Bel Canto<\/EM>, which won the PEN\/Faulkner Award and Orange Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and sold more than a million copies. Her other works include the novels\u00a0The Patron Saint of Liars,\u00a0The Magician\u2019s Assistant,\u00a0Run,\u00a0<\/EM>and\u00a0State of Wonder<\/EM>; the essay collection\u00a0This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage;<\/EM> and\u00a0Truth and Beauty: A Friendship<\/EM>, named one of the Best Books of the Year by the\u00a0Chicago Tribune,\u00a0San Francisco Chronicle<\/EM>, and\u00a0Entertainment Weekly<\/EM>.\u00a0Patchett will read from her new novel\u00a0Commonwealth<\/EM>, which\u00a0Publishers Weekly<\/EM>\u00a0calls\u00a0\u201ca funny, sad, and ultimately heart-wrenching family portrait\u2026. Patchett elegantly manages a varied cast of characters as alliances and animosities ebb and flow, cross-country and over time.\u201d\u00a0She is co-owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville and a staunch advocate for independent bookstores.<\/P>
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Reading followed by an on-stage interview, book sale and signing.

\nTo order books by Lauren Groff & Ann Patchett\u00a0at a discount click here<\/A>.

\nTo submit questions for Lauren Groff & Ann Patchett\u00a0click here<\/A>.

\nTo learn more about the 2016\/2017 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Series click here<\/A>.<\/P>
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\u201cLauren Groff on Writing with Lightness,\u201d The Atlantic.com<\/EM>, by Joe Fassler, October 6, 2015<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P>
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Lauren Groff\u2019s Fates and Furies <\/EM>by Robin Black, The New York Times, <\/EM>September 8, 2015<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P>
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\u201cThis Week in Fiction: Lauren Groff,\u201d by Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker,<\/EM> July 13, 2015<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P>
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\u201cThe Workhorse and the Butterfly: Ann Patchett on Writing and Why Self-Forgiveness Is the Most Important Ingredient of Great Art,\u201d by Maria Popova, Brainpickings.org<\/EM>, April 27, 2015<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P>
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\u201cThe Bookstore Strikes Back\u201d by Ann Patchett, The Atlantic,<\/EM> December 2012<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P>
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\u201cAnn Recommends,\u201d from the Parnassus Bookstore website<\/A><\/STRONG><\/P>
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