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\"Alameddine,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

General admission tickets for $5 will be available at the door starting at 6:45 pm, free for students and senior citizens 65+. Online ticket sales have closed.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

RABIH ALAMEDDINE, \u201cmaster of the non-linear narrative\u201d (The Guardian<\/em>), is according to Michael Chabon, \u201cone of our most daring writers\u2014daring not in the cheap sense of lurid or racy, but as a surgeon, a philosopher, an explorer, or a dancer.\u201d\u00a0His novel\u00a0An Unnecessary Woman<\/em>, which\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0called \u201cbeautiful and absorbing \u2026 a meditation on, among other things, aging, politics, literature, loneliness, grief and resilience,\u201d\u00a0was a finalist for both the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, and on \u201cbest book\u201d lists for\u00a0The\u00a0<\/em>Washington Post<\/em>, NPR, and\u00a0The Christian Science Monitor<\/em>. He is also author of\u00a0The Hakawati<\/em>,\u00a0Koolaids<\/em>, and\u00a0I, the Divine<\/em>, and the story collection\u00a0The Perv<\/em>.\u00a0<\/em>He will read from his new novel The Angel of History<\/em>, which tells the story of a Yemeni poet who, with the help of Satan, Death, and 14 angels, reflects on his past in Cairo, Beirut, and San Francisco during the AIDS epidemic.<\/p>\n

\"Reputations\"JUAN GABRIEL V\u00c1SQUEZ is one of Latin America\u2019s leading writers. His international bestseller\u00a0The Sound of Things Falling<\/em>, which\u00a0Booklist<\/em>\u00a0called \u201ca masterpiece,\u201d won the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Alfaguara Novel Prize, and the English PEN Award. In the novel, which looks back on Colombia\u2019s drug war, \u201cV\u00e1squez creates characters whose memories resonate powerfully across an ingeniously interlocking structure\u201d (The New Republic<\/em>).\u00a0<\/em>His other works in English include\u00a0The Informers, The Secret History of Costaguana<\/em>, and the story collection\u00a0Lovers on All Saints’ Day<\/em>. He has translated the works of John Hersey, Victor Hugo, and E. M. Forster into Spanish, and his own work has been published in 28 languages. He will read from his novel\u00a0Reputations<\/em>, coming out in the U.S. in September.\u00a0Told from the point of view of an aging, legendary political cartoonist,\u00a0Library Journal<\/em>\u00a0calls it \u201ca reverberant new work about a life suddenly challenged… [The] response has been ecstatic.”<\/p>\n

Reading followed by an on-stage interview, book sale and signing.
\nTo order books by Rabih Alameddine &\u00a0Juan Gabriel V\u00e1squez at a discount click here<\/a>.
\nTo submit questions for\u00a0Rabih Alameddine &\u00a0Juan Gabriel V\u00e1squez \u00a0\u00a0click here<\/a>.
\nTo learn more about the 2016\/2017 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Series click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Special thanks to the Arab American Cultural & Community Center, Casa Cultural de las Americas, and Literal: Latin American Voices for promotional help with this reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"hpm-fy2017full_2line\"Inprint and Houston Public Media will be live streaming this reading on inprinthouston.org<\/a> and houstonpublicmedia.org\/inprint<\/a>. Join us online on Monday, November 21, 7:30 pm if you are unable to join us at the Alley Theatre.<\/p>\n

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

Houston Public Media interviewed Rabih Alameddine and played a portion of the interview on Houston Matters<\/em> on November 18, 2016, and posted a longer version online<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts<\/em> interviews\u00a0Juan Gabriel V\u00e1squez, November 17, 2016<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cRabih Alameddine: \u2018Right now in the west, Arabs are the other\u2019,\u201d The Guardian<\/em>, January 9, 2015<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis Is Also My World,\u201d Dwyer Murphy interviews Rabih Alameddine, Guernicamag.com<\/em>, March 3, 2014<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOnce Upon Many Times,\u201d by Lorraine Adams, The New York Times Sunday Book Review<\/em>, May 18, 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAll Saints Day Lovers,\u201d by James Lasdun, The Guardian,<\/em> May 30, 2015<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Drug Trade Destroys A Generation\u2014Quietly\u2014In Falling<\/em>,\u201d by Marcela Valdes on npr.org, July 30, 2013<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIn 1940s Columbia, Blacklists and \u2018Enemy Aliens,\u2019\u201d by Larry Rohter, The New York Times<\/em>, August 2, 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","excerpt":"","slug":"inprint-rabih-alameddine-juan-gabriel-vasquez-reading","image":{"url":"https:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Alameddine-Rabih-and-Vasquez-Juan-Gabriel_600x400.jpg","id":"7797","extension":"jpg","width":600,"height":400,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","ewww_image_optimizer":"Reduced by 71.3% (16.0 kB)","url":"https:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Alameddine-Rabih-and-Vasquez-Juan-Gabriel_600x400-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"width":300,"height":200,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","ewww_image_optimizer":"Reduced by 53.1% (16.2 kB)","url":"https:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Alameddine-Rabih-and-Vasquez-Juan-Gabriel_600x400-300x200.jpg"},"nav-thumbnail":{"width":75,"height":75,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","ewww_image_optimizer":"Reduced by 86.7% (16.0 kB)","url":"https:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Alameddine-Rabih-and-Vasquez-Juan-Gabriel_600x400-75x75.jpg"},"flex-gallery":{"width":300,"height":200,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","ewww_image_optimizer":"No savings","url":"https:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Alameddine-Rabih-and-Vasquez-Juan-Gabriel_600x400-300x200.jpg"}},"ewww_image_optimizer":"Reduced by 7.6% (15.8 kB)"},"all_day":false,"start_date":"2016-11-21 19:30:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2016","month":"11","day":"21","hour":"19","minutes":"30","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2016-11-21 21:00:00","end_date_details":{"year":"2016","month":"11","day":"21","hour":"21","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_start_date":"2016-11-22 01:30:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2016","month":"11","day":"22","hour":"01","minutes":"30","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2016-11-22 03:00:00","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2016","month":"11","day":"22","hour":"03","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"timezone":"America\/Chicago","timezone_abbr":"CST","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"","currency_position":"","values":[]},"website":"","show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[{"name":"2020\/2021 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series","slug":"inprint-margarett-root-brown-reading-series","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":355,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":0,"count":53,"filter":"raw","id":60,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/60","collection":"https:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories"}}],"tags":[],"venue":{"id":7794,"author":"21","status":"publish","date":"2016-06-30 14:51:41","date_utc":"2016-06-30 19:51:41","modified":"2022-07-07 16:01:56","modified_utc":"2022-07-07 21:01:56","url":"https:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/venue\/alley-theatre\/","venue":"Alley Theatre","slug":"alley-theatre","address":"615 Texas Avenue","city":"Houston","province":"TX","state":"TX","zip":"77002","stateprovince":"TX","geo_lat":29.761907,"geo_lng":-95.3653007,"json_ld":{"@type":"Place","name":"Alley Theatre","description":"","url":"https:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/venue\/alley-theatre\/","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","streetAddress":"615 Texas Avenue","addressLocality":"Houston","addressRegion":"TX","postalCode":"77002"},"geo":{"@type":"GeoCoordinates","latitude":29.761907,"longitude":-95.3653007},"telephone":"0","sameAs":""},"show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"global_id":"inprinthouston.org?id=7794","global_id_lineage":["inprinthouston.org?id=7794"]},"organizer":[{"id":2432,"author":"1","status":"publish","date":"2015-02-03 22:16:05","date_utc":"2015-02-03 22:16:05","modified":"2015-02-03 22:16:05","modified_utc":"2015-02-03 22:16:05","url":"https:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/organizer\/inprint-2\/","organizer":"Inprint","slug":"inprint-2","json_ld":{"@type":"Person","name":"Inprint","description":"","url":"https:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/organizer\/inprint-2\/","telephone":"","email":"","sameAs":""},"global_id":"inprinthouston.org?id=2432","global_id_lineage":["inprinthouston.org?id=2432"]}],"json_ld":{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Event","name":"Inprint Rabih Alameddine & Juan Gabriel V\u00e1squez Reading","description":"<p>General admission tickets for $5 will be available at the door starting at 6:45 pm, free for students and senior citizens 65+. 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