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Thursday, April 19, 2012

The Last TRNS

This is it, folks, the last TNRS of Spring 2012. There will never be another Spring 2012 TNRS (ever!), so if you've been thinking to yourself, "hey, I should go to a TNRS this spring" (and you really should), you've lucked out, because there is one more!

7:30pm in the Gaines Center, TNRS and the Creative Writing program are proud to present Louis Toliver and Willy Vlautin! Read on for why you will be super sad to miss these readers (and you really will be).

Louis Toliver has nothing in common with Seth Johnson. To make sure you remember that...come to the TRNS this Thursday. Louis has a surprise for you. It will be a memorable end to the semester.

Born and raised in Reno, Nevada, Vlautin started playing guitar and writing songs as a teenager and quickly became immersed in music. It was a Paul Kelly song, based on Raymond Carver’s “Too Much Water So Close to Home,” that inspired him to start writing stories. Vlautin has published three novels, THE MOTEL LIFE (2007), NORTHLINE (2008), and LEAN ON PETE (2010). LEAN ON PETE earned Vlautin the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction. The film version of THE MOTEL LIFE is slated for a 2012 release and stars Dakota Fanning, Emile Hirsh, Stephen Dorff, and Kris Kristofferson. Willy Vlautin is also singer-songwriter for the band Richmond Fontaine.

See you then!
Emily & Kristen

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