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San Antonio, Texas
Joined September 2020
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So excited to be moderating this panel with Cristina Henríquez and Ben Fountain at the @SABookFestival this Saturday! 4 PM. Come out and see us!
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Don’t forget to stop by tomorrow, April 10th for the next Maverick Book Club meeting. Our very own Jenny Browne will be discussing poetry that explores themes of beauty, hope, racism, immigration, and place in a state that is a beautiful and sad paradox of space and meaning.
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This Thursday, April 11, the Madrid Lecture Series will be hosting Sandra Cisneros’ lecture, Keepikg San Antonio Lamé: My Life Among los Artistas. This event will take place at 7PM in Laurie Auditorium.
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Absolutely thrilled to share this news! And so excited to know this novel will be out in the world next year, and so delighted to get to work again with the brilliant Diana Tejerina Miller at @AAKnopf!!
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The Humanities Collective invites you to attend a reading and conversation between acclaimed writers Elizabeth McCracken and Deb Olin Unferth on Thursday, Feb. 29, at 8 p.m. in Dicke Hall Mabee Auditorium. The reading will be followed by a book signing and reception.
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San Antonio, This is happening next Thus, Feb 29 at 8 PM at Trinity! Come hear the brilliant @elizmccracken and Deb Olin Unferth read and chat about their work! Book signing & reception to follow. Free & open to all! Sponsored by Stieren Arts Enrichment Series & @TrinityEnglish5
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The 2024 Álvarez Seminar Series is here! See playwright/director Octavio Solis this Thurs, 2/22, at 6pm in the Holt Center, and Edit Villarreal & José Cruz González on Fri, 3/8, at 4pm in Dicke Hall 104.
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Join us on October 27th as the Humanities Collective co-hosts Humanities Day with CELCS! Are you curious about the potential of your humanities degree? Be sure to join us for the Humanities Day panel and reception on Friday, Oct. 27, between 3 and 4 p.m. at Dicke Hall, room 104.
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Grateful for this generous review in @nytimesbooks ! “A quietly astonishing collection…These stories are cleareyed and unadorned, invested with just as much authority as they require to do their appointed work, like a row of votive candles in the dark recess of a church.”
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Univ of Houston writing professor and TU Press author Peter Turchi speaks on campus this Thurs 4/13 at 6pm in Mabee Auditorium, DH 104. Come see "one of the country's foremost thinkers on the art of writing," according to the Houston Chronicle.
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My BOOK LAUNCH for The Disappeared will be happening next Tuesday (April 11) at @Trinity_U! If you live in San Antonio (or nearby), I hope you can make it! And please help spread the word! Sponsored by @HumanitiesTU @TrinityEnglish5 & several other depts.
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Join @tupress for an evening with writer & @UHouston creative writing prof Peter Turchi, author of Maps of the Imagination and (Don’t) Stop Me If You’ve Heard This Before and Other Essays on Writing Fiction. 4/13 @ 6 PM Dicke Hall @Trinity_U @HumanitiesTU tupress.org/events/peter-tur…
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Join the English Dept for a reading by poet Matthew Zapruder on Wed, Mar 29, along with guest Trinity MAT alum Dan Mallette! 6pm reception, 7pm reading in Dicke Hall 104
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Timeka Tounsel from the University of WA speaks this Wednesday, Mar 23, about her new book Branding Black Womanhood, covering the media and Black women's empowerment. Dicke Hall 108 @ 5pm, snacks at 4:30!
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English prof Andrew Kraebel gives a talk on Richard Rolle in Dicke Hall 116 on Tuesday morning, 3/21, at 11am! As a preview, listen to Dr. Kraebel discussing Rolle on this podcast episode: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s…
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My thoughts on medieval mysticism, in podcast form!
Thanks to this month's podcast guest, @hermitofhampole, for revisiting the wondeful Richard Rolle (d. 1349). We talk translation, spontaneous verse, celestial song, and the engagement of the whole person in mystical experience. On any podcast app of at bit.ly/3J5h3xg
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Join the Early Book and Manuscript Lab for a screening of this 2009 animated tale about the making of the medieval manuscript The Book of Kells. Monday, March 6 at 7pm in Dicke Hall 108.
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Acclaimed poet and essayist Ross Gay will be coming to @Trinity_U tomorrow night at 8 PM! Please join us! Free and open to the public! @HumanitiesTU @TrinityEnglish5
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So grateful for these kind words about The Disappeared from Peter Orner, a writer whose work I’ve been in awe of for years. Thank you, Peter!
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So thrilled that acclaimed poet and memoirist Ross Gay will be coming to @Trinity_U in one week! @TrinityEnglish5 @HumanitiesTU
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