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So thank you all for coming
out to our first Prose Series

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Event of the year.

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I'm sort of the Vice
Chancellor of the Prose Series,

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standing in for my
colleague Alison Deming

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who had to be in Paris tonight.

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And said-- and
sends her regrets.

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The only thing I'd like
to say before I introduce

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the introducer is
our next reading

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is with Erik Reece, an essayist
and memoirist and generally

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really interesting
writer, here Tuesday

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night in, what, week and a half?

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The 17th.

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So you should please consider
coming to that and that'll be--

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I think that'll
be a great event.

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This event tonight is
produced in part and thanks

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to the Poetry Center, the
University of Arizona's English

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Department, and SBS,
and also Alison Deming

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who found some money
for us somewhere.

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So we appreciate that.

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It's a real pleasure
to see you all tonight

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and to see this good of
a crowd for the essay

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in the age of the essay.

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And this is one our--
of my-- certainly one

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of my favorite
contemporary essayists.

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So to introduce him tonight
will be Joseph Bradbury.