Fresh Ink
New work by acclaimed and emerging writers on Late Nights at the DMA
Ben Fountain & Alexander Maksik, May 18, 7:00 p.m.
   
Ben Fountain & Alexander Maksik Friday, May 18, 7:00 p.m.
Horchow Auditorium Community Partner:  Discover two exciting new voices in contemporary literature. Though both are debut novelists, they have each already earned incredible acclaim. Ben Fountain received a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award and a PEN/Hemingway Award for his story collection Brief Encounters with Che Guevara. In 2007, Fountain was one of ten emerging writers to win the prestigious Whiting Writers' Award. His new novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, is a razor sharp satire about a young, reluctant Iraq War hero, home on leave, who finds himself the guest of honor at a Dallas Cowboys football game. Author Madison Smartt Bell lauded the book saying, "Ben Fountain's Halftime is as close to the Great American Novel as anyone is likely to come these days— an extraordinary work that captures and releases the unquiet spirit of our age, and is likely to be remembered as one of the important books of this decade.
Alexander Maksik is the recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship and a fellowship from the Iowa Writers Workshop. His first novel, You Deserve Nothing, was featured in Publishers Weekly as one of ten promising debuts. Set in Paris at an international high school, You Deserve Nothing is a gripping story of power, idealism, and morality. In Maksik's stylish prose, Paris is dazzling and dangerously seductive. It serves as a fitting backdrop for a dramatic tale about the tension between desire and action, and about the complex relationship that exists between our public and private selves.
In the Press: Ben Fountain
Ticket Prices DMA Members: FREE
Adults: $10
Seniors 65+/Military: $7
Students: $5
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