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::Maurice Manning and Emily Fox Gordon Poetry Reading at Diverseworks:: Giving Houstonians a chance to hear tomorrow’s great writers today. The Inprint Studio Series, presented by Inprint in association with the University of Houston Creative Writing Program and Diverseworks, features some of the best young writers in the country, as well as alumni from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program and leading local authors. Now in its second season, the 2007-2008 Inprint Studio Series,...

Antonya Nelson, one of our resident writer geniuses here in town, recently placed *another* story in the New Yorker, and it takes place in Houston! Get a load of that! The story is called "Shauntrelle." Here are the opening lines: "It isn’t just a husband you divorce but a life. A credit rating. Certain friends—sadly, some of them small children. A mother-in-law, that innocent bystander. And sometimes it seemed to Constance that she had divorced...

Thanks to the dual miracles of sports talk radio and the interwebs, it's now possible to know virtually everything about your hometeam team on a second-by-second basis. The slightest tweak in a back-up tight end's tooth becomes a code red emergency, leaving the fan base gasping in disarray. Unfortunately, this can sometimes lead to a gap in information involving, you know, all those other teams in the National Football League. In hopes of rectifying this...