- When
- Sat, October 10 2026
- Where
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The Crocker Art Museum
216 O Street - Time
- 2:00 pm
Description
Join acclaimed authors William T. Vollmann and Devyn Defoe for an afternoon celebrating their forthcoming novels, A Table for Fortune and Burnside. The authors will share readings from their work before a brief Q&A. A book signing will follow the program.
William T. Vollmann is the author of twelve novels, including Europe Central, which won the National Book Award. He has also written four collections of stories, including The Rainbow Stories and The Atlas, which won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a memoir, and ten works of nonfiction, including Rising Up and Rising Down and Imperial, both of which were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His journalism and fiction have been published in The New Yorker, Harpers, Esquire, Granta, and many other publications. He lives in Sacramento, California.
Devyn Defoe is a writer and bookseller from Sacramento, CA. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, her work has been published by Socrates on the Beach and The White Review. Burnside is her first novel.
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