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We like our layers of
introductions here a lot.

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But they're all short, so--

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I can assure you of that.

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So I'm Ander Monson, I'm
the Prose Series director.

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I apologize in advance if
you came for Charles Yu.

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He was originally part of
this bill, and the show

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he works on--

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HBO changed their
shooting schedule.

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And so, he had to move.

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So he will be reading
with Kristen Radtke,

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a visual nonfiction
writer on January 25th.

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So come back, if
you would, for that.

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Its guaranteed to be an
awesome reading, as is tonight.

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The upside is this makes more
space for Rubén Martínez.

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A couple of thanks
to our co-sponsors,

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the Poetry Center as always.

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Of course, really happy, really
happy to have this space,

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and to have the logistics,
and everything that they do

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is wonderful.

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Thanks also to the
High Country News

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which is co-sponsoring
this event tonight.

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The Institute of
the Environment,

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the Agnese Nelms Haury fund
via Alison Deming, our dear

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colleague, and of course,
the MFA in creative writing.

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So with that, now my pre
introduction is out of the way,

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I'd like to introduce
the actual introducer,

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and we're moving slowly closer
to Rubén Martínez: Maya Kapoor.

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