Readings by Balcones Prize Winners Linh Dinh and Chase Twichell
March 21, 7PM
Rio Grande Campus Gallery Theater
1212 Rio Grande
Austin, TX 78701
Linh Dinh won the Balcones Fiction Prize for his novel Love Like Hate.
Chase Twichell is the Balcones Prize-winning author of Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New and Selected Poems.
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information contact Charlotte Gullick, (512) 223.3226, cgullick@austincc.edu
The 23nd Annual Nelson Algren Birthday Party in Chicago
March 24, 8PM
Wicker Park Art Center (a/k/a/ St. Paul's)
2215 W. North Ave.
Chicago, IL
$10/$7 students--Info: 773/235 4267--Street parking available--Cash bar
Legendary pianist and boogie expert Erwin Helfer kicks off this years birthday party, which will feature, among others, award-winning novelist/photographer Linh Dinh, writer/dissident psychologist Bruce Levine, U. Conn. Algren scholar Mike Jones, renowned folksinger Bucky Halker, poet/raconteur/magazine maven Bob Katzman, singer/songwriter Kristin Lems and poets Charlie Newman & Co. Guitarist and "Rio Bamba" headliner John Garvey will back Algren Committee co-founder Warren Leming, who will perform a poem from "Chicago: City on the Make," while photographer and Algren fan Ron Seymour will show some of his photos of Algren. A mystery guest and old Algren pal will talk about the days when Ma's was where you ate, or chose not to; Doc was the man who dealt the cards, if you lacked judgment; and women with troubles worse than your own were relatively unknown. This year's Algren Committee Award winners are Chicago historical researcher and re-enactor extraordinaire Paul Durica and scholar/activist/Maxwell Street preservationist Elliot Zashin. The cash bar, "Sto Lat" singalong and birthday cake remain sacrosanct. Come join the fun!
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