On October 22 at 7PM , San Francisco poet Bill Berkson will read in the Joynes Room. Publisher’s Weekly calls him “a serene master of the syntactical sleight, transforming the mundane into the marvelous.” The first five honors students to inquire at the Joynes Reading Room front desk will receive a free copy of Berkson’s latest book.

On Thursday, Oct. 28 at 7PM in the Joynes Reading Room, New York Times Magazine contributor Peter Maass will present “Crude Truths: How a Writer Tells Compelling Stories About Oil and War”. Maass has reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria and is known for his narrative story-telling. He will explain the ways today’s journalists can make Americans pay attention to complicated problems beyond our borders. The first 12 honors students who inquire at the Joynes Reading Room front desk will receive free copies of Maass’s new book, Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil.

For more information, contact mvalentine@mail.utexas.edu <mailto:mvalentine@mail.utexas.edu> or call 512-415-6430.