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Thank you.

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So nice to see you all.

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This is the first of
our Prose Series events

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to be exclusively alum driven.

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These are all alums.

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I see a lot of alums in
the audience tonight.

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Let this be a spur to you and
your work, to get the book out

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and let us know because we'd
like to bring in more alums

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back to the program to read.

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So first, I'd like to welcome
you all to our second Prose

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Series event of the semester.

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I'm Ander Monson,
as Hannah mentioned,

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I'm director of
the Prose Series,

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and tonight we host three
fiction writers, one of whom

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has gone astray.

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So let me first invite
you to one more event.

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We are having-- the MFA program
is hosting a little homecoming

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event for the EXO Roasting
Company next Friday, which

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is 403 North Sixth Avenue.

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It's at their workspace
that's attached to it.

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So Friday night at 19:00.

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We didn't know it was
homecoming, but like, oh,

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it's homecoming.

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So we should do something.

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So those of you who are
MFA alums please come by,

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and say hello.

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Have a snack and have a drink,
and come see Tucson and Ela

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Harrison and MFA alums Paco
Cantú and Kati Standefer,

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who all have essays in this
year's edition of the Best

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American Essays edited
by Jonathan Franzen.

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So we'll have books for sale
there thanks to Antigone,

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and we'd like to
invite all of our alums

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and anyone else,
which is you guys, who

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are interested to
come check in with us

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and hear three best American
essayists read from three best

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American essays.

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So our readers
tonight, in order,

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are Lawrence Lenhart, introduced
by some chump, Ben Rybeck,

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introduced by the
excellent Buzz Poverman,

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and Natasha Stagg introduced by
the fabulous Aurelie Sheehan.

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So as Hannah
mentioned, we're going

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to skip Q and A. The only
answer you need is the books,

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but if you need more
answers you can buy the book

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and harass the writers.

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That's fine too.