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So thank you all for coming out to our first Prose Series
Event of the year.
I'm sort of the Vice Chancellor of the Prose Series,
standing in for my colleague Alison Deming
who had to be in Paris tonight.
And said-- and sends her regrets.
The only thing I'd like to say before I introduce
the introducer is our next reading
is with Erik Reece, an essayist and memoirist and generally
really interesting writer, here Tuesday
night in, what, week and a half?
The 17th.
So you should please consider coming to that and that'll be--
I think that'll be a great event.
This event tonight is produced in part and thanks
to the Poetry Center, the University of Arizona's English
Department, and SBS, and also Alison Deming
who found some money for us somewhere.
So we appreciate that.
It's a real pleasure to see you all tonight
and to see this good of a crowd for the essay
in the age of the essay.
And this is one our-- of my-- certainly one
of my favorite contemporary essayists.
So to introduce him tonight will be Joseph Bradbury.