Rick Bass Reading

Friends--

Please join me for a stellar reading! And please pass this information on to students and friends. The reading is free!

Sept 22: Rick Bass, novelist/environmentalist

Reading at UTD at 7:30 pm in the Performance Hall

Rick Bass is the author of over twenty books. His first short story
collection, The Watch, set in Texas, won the PEN/Nelson Algren Award, and
his 2002 collection, The Hermit’s Story, was a Los Angeles Times Best Book
of the Year. Bass’s stories have also been awarded the Pushcart Prize and
the O. Henry Award and have been collected in The Best American Short
Stories. He was a finalist for The Story Prize in 2007 for his short story
collection The Lives of Rocks. He was a finalist for the 2008 National Book
Critics Circle Award (autobiography) for Why I Came West (2008). His most
recent book, The Wild Marsh, about his life in rural Montana was published
earlier this year.

You can read an excerpt from it at:
http://www.oprah.com/article/omagazine/200904-omag-rick-bass

Read more about the event at:
http://www.utdallas.edu/ah/events/detail.html?id=1220068171

Susan Briante, MFA, PhD
Assistant Professor
Aesthetic Studies
University of Texas at Dallas
800 W. Campbell Road--JO 31
Richardson, TX 75081-3021


http://www.ah.utdallas.edu/people/sbriante.html


http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/briante/briante.htm