Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta

Twentieth Anniversary Reading By Kate Braverman

Kate BravermanThursday, September 16, 2010
7:00 pm
Main Library Community Room
145 Washington Ave.


Published in the 1990 short story collection, Squandering the Blue, Kate Braverman’s “Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta” has appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories, 1991 and The O. Henry Awards Prize Stories, 1992. To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of its publication, Ms. Braverman will read and discuss her widely-acclaimed story.

Kate Braverman is author of four books of poetry and the novels: Lithium for Medea, Palm Latitudes, Wonders of the West, and The Incantation of Frida K. She was awarded the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize for Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles: An Accidental Memoir, published in Feb. 2006.

This event is free and open to the public.

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