A celebration of our state’s big appetite for literature brought to you by Writing Workshops Dallas and Gemini Ink; Zoom meetings every two weeks at 7:00PM CST: April 29, May 13, May 27, & June 10
From the Big Texas Read website:
THE PITCH
You’re stuck at home, entrenched in front of the TV. You’re glued to your smart devices and Twitter is blowing up in front of your eyes and you can’t run and you can’t hide from the ever-pervading end of the world that’s being shot directly through the air on invisible beams and straight into your brain. But: you can UNPLUG from the outside world and JOIN us at The Big Texas Read brought to you by Writing Workshops Dallas and Gemini Ink. We’ll be reading ONE work of prose or poetry written by a Texas author every 1-2 months from now until the bug is squashed! We’ll be with you all the way from page one to “THE END” with our Zoom author chats and Q&A’s, scheduled every two weeks. Think of it as a big virtual book club, only you get to stay home, mix a cocktail, eat a big piece of chocolate cake, and snuggle up on the sofa.
THE BOOK
We’ll start with David Samuel Levinson’s TELL ME HOW THIS ENDS WELL, a novel as much about the times in which we live as it is timeless. Funny, compelling, smart and brilliantly plotted, we at WWD and Gemini Ink are inviting you to join us in reading and discussing this wonderful novel. David will appeal to your questions as well as explain what it takes to sit down and write a speculative/dystopian novel while actually living through and surviving a tumultuous political climate made manifestly more severe by outside threats. David Samuel Levinson is a teaching artist for both WWD and Gemini Ink and we love launching The Big Texas Read with his novel!
FREE GIVEAWAYS
Keep a lookout for giveaways that come with being a book lover and taking part in The Big Texas Read, from free online WWD and Gemini Ink workshops to a manuscript consultation with David himself. Help us celebrate the diverse literary voices of our robust state, and we’ll join you in making the most of these unexpected times by keeping you company with great Texas authors and like-minded fellow readers. In these unsettling times, what could be better than a good book, a dynamic discussion, and meeting new friends? What else is there than that? What else will bring us closer together?
PARTNER BOOKSTORES
We're excited to partner with Interabang Books in Dallas and The Twig Book Shop in San Antonio for The Big Texas Read. You can order your book directly from either bookstore and have it delivered to your front door!
RSVP via the program webpage if you'd like to learn more and join us for this Big Texas reading series.
David Samuel Levinson is the author of the novels Tell Me How This Ends Well and Antonia Lively Breaks the Silence. He's received fellowships from Yaddo, the Jentel Foundation, Ledig House, the Santa Fe Arts Institute, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Marguerite & Lamar Smith Fellowship for Writers. He was first runner-up in the Flannery O'Connor Story Prize and placed third in the Atlantic Monthly's fiction competition for his story, "Most of Us Are Here Against Our Will," which was chosen by Mary Gaitskill. Since then, his stories and poetry have appeared in storySouth, The Brooklyn Review, Prairie Schooner, The Toronto Quarterly, West Branch, Post Road, and Fresh.Ink, among others. He served as the Fellow in Fiction at Emory University from 2013 to 2015. He teaches fiction workshops for Writing Workshops Dallas, Gemini Ink, and UCLA Online.
