So thank you so much for coming out.
This is really great for our last Prose Series
reading of the school year, which
is a little sad to say after so many great readings this year.
I'm Ander Monson.
I've been the Prose Series coordinator this year.
And I'm here tonight to introduce arguably my favorite
of the readings.
This has been a really good year of readings,
but these are both readers that I've
been hoping to hear read for probably 5 to 10 years.
And so this is the first time that we get them
together in one space to blow the roof off this thing.
So a couple of thanks to Allie Leach and Cybele
Knowles for their work helping to coordinate and do
all the logistical work for the series,
and thank you to the English department,
college of humanities, the W. & R. Bernheimer Foundation,
and many other supporters of the series this year.
It's been great to work and particularly to work in a year
where we've had difficulty finding money
to bring all these great people in, I mean,
budget cuts everywhere.
And thank you to the Poetry Center for hosting us,
as always.
It's great to be in this room, this amazing space with all you
amazing people, for the reading tonight.
So without further ado, the order tonight will be--
we're going to have Parke Cooper introducing Susan Steinberg
first and then Laura Miller introducing Lucy Corin second.
We do not have a Q and A afterwards.
We do have a lot of books to buy and to get signed,
and I recommend you do both of those things.
I will also invite you in case you
would like to come tomorrow.
There'll be a Q and A in Modern Languages
378 from 10:00 to 11:00 for anyone who's interested.
It's just kind of an informal Q and A,
and that may be your opportunity to get questions answered
if you don't get the chance to talk to them one on one
after the reading tonight.