Writers’ Workshop graduate Tom Macher will read from his memoir, Halfway, about his time spent in boys’ homes and halfway houses as a teen. “In Tom Macher’s tough new memoir, halfway is a condition of the heart and soul as much as it is a refuge for wayward boys… Many of the boys we meet along the way don’t make it, but one of them endures, and a lone voice survives, as Tom Macher returns to tell this beautiful tale.” —Charles d’Ambrosio Tom Macher grew up in Georgia, New York, and California...

Writers’ Workshop graduate Anjali Sachdeva will read from her short story collection All the Names They Used for God.   “Each one provides a haiku-esque glimpse into the infinite mind of an individual while revealing how the seeming trivialities of life can reverberate with meaning. Throughout, characters grapple with predetermination as they experience the brutal clash between expectation and reality.” —Michael Valinsky Anjali Sachdeva's fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, Th...

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...

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...