Susan mentioned Tim O'Brien and Heather
Aronson will be reading in about five weeks
here in this auditorium.
And, it's now my pleasure to introduce
Nancy Mairs, our next reader.
Her books include--
In All the Rooms in the Yellow House, which was a National
Book Award winner, excuse me, Western States Book Award
winner in 1984; her book of essays, Plaintext;
and she is working on a new book, which
is forthcoming in about a year called, Housebound: An Erotics
of Place and Space.
She's extremely nervous tonight because she's
reading something in progress.
So you have to give her your full attention,
lots of applause and strokes for what she's going to read.
She's also admitted to me that every night she goes home
from her studio at 6 o'clock and she spends an hour watching
Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!
[LAUGHTER]
And she's very embarrassed by this
but my guess is probably several other people
in the room do that.
Can we have a show of hands.
Who watches Wheel of Fortune here?
There's a few.
She's going back behind the curtain.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the rest of the reading.
Thank you for coming.
Ladies and gentlemen, Nancy Mairs.
[APPLAUSE]