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Author Brockmeier to Read Sept. 20

糖心Vlog传媒LR鈥檚 Departments of English and Rhetoric and Writing will sponsor a reading by , author of 鈥淭he Illumination,鈥� 鈥淭he Brief History of the Dead,鈥� and 鈥淭he Truth about Celia,鈥� from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Building. A book signing will follow in Gallery I. The event is free and open to the public. Brockmeier, a writer of fantasy and literary fiction, lives in Little Rock where he was born and raised. His other works include two novels for younger readers, 鈥淐ity of Names鈥� and 鈥淕rooves: A Kind of Mystery,鈥� and two story collections 鈥� 鈥淭hings That Fall From the Sky鈥� and 鈥淭he View From the Seventh Layer.鈥� Brockmeier鈥檚 work has been translated into 15 languages and his short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Georgia Review, 惭肠厂飞别别苍别测鈥檚, Zoetrope, Tin House, the Oxford American, The Best American Short Stories, The Year鈥檚 Best Fantasy and Horror, and New Stories from the South. Brockmeier has received the Borders Original Voices Award, three O. Henry Awards, the PEN USA Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an NEA Grant. Recently, he was named one of Granta Magazine鈥檚 鈥淏est Young American Novelists.鈥� For more information about Brockmeier鈥檚 lecture, contact the Department of English at 501-569-3191 or at [email protected] or the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at 501-569-3160 or at [email protected].