Conversation: Acclaimed writers Alfredo Corchado, author of "Midnight in Mexico" and Ricardo Sandoval, author of "The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle" will be talking about the Border and Contemporary Mexico.

We're presenting a reading by journalist Anna Badkhen, whose most recent book "The World is a Carpet", recounts the year she spent living in the tiny Afghanistani village of Oqa, population 240, where the principle occupation is carpet weaving.

Novelist Laird Hunt will be reading from his work.  His widely praised and respected works include Kind One; Indiana, Indiana; Paris Stories; and The Impossibly.  

Alan Gilbert, author of Late in the Antenna Fields and Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight, will be reading from his work.  

The Cowboys, Willie and West Texas: A Dialogue with Joe Nick Patoski,  Patoski is the author of many books on Texas culture, including biographies of Selena, Stevie Ray and Willie, and has contributed lengthy essays to books on Conservation in Texas, The Big Bend, the Texas Coast and the mountains of Texas.  

Colson Whitehead, the author of the novels The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Zone One and Sag Harbor will be reading from his work.

Fabien Giraud and Ida Soulard will discuss their forthcoming book and installation "Marfa Stratum", which explores the geologic history of the Permian Basin, sheaf theory (via Alexander Grothendieck), speculative realism (via Quentin Meillassoux) and catastrophe theory (via Rene Thom).

We're hosting the excellent novelist and non-fiction writer David Treuer this evening at 6 pm.  Treuer is here with the Lannan Foundation and has recently finished his fourth novel, Prudence.

Rosa Alcala will be reading from her own work as well as her translations from the recently published Spit Temple: The Selected Performances of Cecilia Vicuna.