Thank you, especially for coming out on a strange Monday.
It's unusual for us.
But actually, all three of our readings
this semester are on different days.
And I want to give you a little heads
up about that in case you haven't
got one of my many emails.
There maybe more of them coming.
So we have three Prose Series events tonight, oh sorry,
this spring, including tonight.
It's going to be a really long reading, folks.
So we have tonight's reading, and then
in about a week and a half on the 19th
we have DT Max, who's David Foster Wallace's biographer
and a nonfiction writer in his own right
who will be reading on Wednesday night
the 19th here in this space.
And as you may remember, David Foster Wallace
is one of our alums, so that should be a really great night.
Hope you come to that.
And the reading we have on March 6th, which is a Thursday
night with back to our traditional nights
is fiction writers Lucy Corin and Susan
Steinberg, who are two of my favorite, favorite writers.
Although Lucy Corin, in particular, I love Lucy Corin.
So you should come up to that, and that
should be a lot of fun.
She's going to be reading about the apocalypse.
And that's usually fun until it's over,
and then the fun goes on.
So a couple of thanks before we get going.
Tonight, I want you thank Tyler and Cybele and Allie Leach,
who is now coordinating things at the readings in the evening.
So thank you guys so much for your help setting this up;
this is going to be really great,
and we appreciate being in this amazing space.
So another reminder.
We're not going to do a Q and A after the reading tonight.
But if you were interested in Q'ing or listening to A's, both
of our readers will be having lunch.
We're going to do a brown bag lunch tomorrow
from 12:30 to 1:30 in Modern Languages 378.
So come one.
Come all.
Come out.
They're happy to talk to you.
It'll be sort of a casual lunch; bring food
if you would like food or go hungry.
That's fine.
I don't care.
But that'll be 12:30 to 1:30 tomorrow.
And I really encourage you to come.
And thanks also to the English Department,
the College of Humanities, Gender and Women's Studies,
and the W & R Bernheimer Family Foundation
for helping to fund the Prose Series this year.
So I'm going to introduce just briefly our two introducers,
and then we're going to read.
And it's going to be amazing.
So first, we're going to have Kati Standefer introducing
Aisha Sloan.
And then second, we will have Jan Bindas-Tenney
introducing Arianne Zwartjes.
So welcome to Kati Standefer.