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April 3: Writer Maile Meloy reads @ Butler

Meloy’s concise yet fine-grained narratives, whether set in Montana, an East Coast boarding school or a 1970s nuclear power plant, shout out with quiet restraint and calm precision. Her flawed characters — ranch hands in love, fathers and daughters — rarely act in their own best interests and often betray those closest to them.

NYT “10 Best Books of 2009

Maile Meloy is the author of the story collection Half in Love, the novels Liars and Saints and A Family Daughter, and the collection Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It, which was named one of the Ten Best Books of 2009 by The New York Times Book Review and a best book of the year by the Los Angeles Times and Amazon.com.  It also won the California Book Awards Silver Medal for Fiction.  Meloy’s stories have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, and other publications, and she has received The Paris Review’s Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.  In 2007, she was chosen as one of Granta’s 21 Best Young American Novelists.  Her new novel, The Apothecary, is her first for young readers.

When: Tuesday April 3, 7:30 pm
Where: Butler University 4600 Sunset Ave.

Free and open to all.

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