Husband-and-wife team to headline 蹤獲扦 reading series

The department of English at 蹤獲扦continues its 2007-08 Thursday Reading Series with fiction writer Amy Knox Brown and novelist/humorist John McNally at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, in the Marcus Welcome Center.

John McNally

John McNally

McNally is the author of the John Simmons Award-winning story collection Troublemakers, the award-winning novel Book of Ralph, and the recent comic novel Americas Report Card.

He also is a prolific anthologist, with his recent effort, When I Was a Loser, about high school experiences, being a top seller. He is the Olen R. Nalley Associate Professor of English at Wake Forest University.

McNallys wife, Knox Brown, will be reading from her story collection Three Versions of the Truth. She is an English professor at Salem College.

There will be a local jazz outfit opening for the readers, and free refreshments will be served. A book-signing will follow the event. The 蹤獲扦 Campus Bookstore will sell the authors works.