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Live from Prairie Lights: Ian Stansel and Sarah Strickley

Friday, June 22, 2018 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Writers’ Workshop graduates Ian Stansel and Sarah Strickley will read from their new fiction. Ian Stansel will read from The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo.  "Stansel confidently updates the American Western while honoring its most daring storytellers: Charles Portis and Larry McMurtry. In taut, cinematic prose, Stansel considers the romance of frontier justice, the seductive power of a good old-fashioned horse chase/manhunt and the heartbreaking costs of fraternal rivalry." —Amber Dermont...
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Live from Prairie Lights: Andrew Sean Greer

Wednesday, June 20, 2018 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Andrew Sean Greer will read from his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, Less. "I adore this book. It's funny, piquant, bittersweet and so achingly observant about the vanity of writers that it made me squirm in recognition. I'll probably read it again very soon." —Armistead Maupin A former instructor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop,  Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of six novels, including The Story of a Marriage and The Confessions of Max Tivoli.  He lives in San Francisco and in Tuscany...
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Live from Prairie Lights: Nick Dybek

Tuesday, June 19, 2018 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Writers’ Workshop alum Nick Dybek will read from his novel of a lonely young man, a beautiful widow, and an amnesiac soldier, in The Verdun Affair. Set in Europe in the aftermath of World War I and Los Angeles in the 1950s, “From a still-smoldering battlefield, Nick Dybek conjures a sweeping saga of secrets, lies, mistaken identity, love and betrayal. This is the kind of book you can’t put down.” —Claire Vaye Watkins Nick Dybek is also the author of When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man. A...

Live from Prairie Lights: Joshua Corey - to be rescheduled

Wednesday, October 25, 2017 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
[TO BE RESCHEDULED]  Poetry reading