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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.

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As Hannah mentioned, 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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[LAUGHTER]

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So let me first invite
you to one more event.

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We are having a-- the
MFA program is hosting

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a little homecoming event
for the EXO roasting

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company next Friday, which
is 403 North 6th Avenue.

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

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so Friday night at 7 o'clock.

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We didn't know it was
homecoming, but we're like,

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oh, it's homecoming, so
we should do something.

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So those of you who
are MFA alums, please

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come by and say hello.

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Have a snack and have a drink
and come see Tucsonan 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 the Q and A. The only
answer you need is the books.

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[LAUGHTER]

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But if you need more answers,
you could buy the books

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and harass the writers.

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That's fine too.