HAMMER Readings: Some Favorite Writers: T.C. Boyle November 11, 2008

TC Boyle’s twentieth book of fiction, The Women, will be published in February 2009. His stories regularly appear in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and McSweeney’s, among others, and he has received a number of literary awards, including both the PEN/Faulkner and PEN/Malamud prizes for work in the novel and short story, respectively. His 1995 novel, The Tortilla Curtain, won France’s Prix Médicis étranger and has become something of a
modern classic, subject of dozens of community-wide readings and innumerable student essays, a sin for which he hopes to be forgiven someday. He teaches at USC.

The Reading will be followed by a signing in the Hammer Bookstore.

A series of readings organized by Mona Simpson, author of Anywhere But Here, and Off Keck Road. Readings are followed by discussions with Simpson. Sponsored by the UCLA Department of English and Friends of English.

Official Website: http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/programs/1/