Join us for another installment of Novel Night, a monthly celebration of all things prose! Here’s how it works: published authors will read from their books and there’ll be an audience Q & A. And we’ll also have “Book Talk,” in which an intrepid Malvern staff member will introduce you to one of our favorite prose titles. Also worth noting: we’re offering 20% OFF ALL FICTION TITLES during Novel Night (from 6pm till closing).

This month’s Novel Night features readings from José Skinner and Oscar Cásares. José will be reading from his short story collection, The Tombstone Race, and Oscar will read from his novel Amigoland.

José Skinner is the author of two short story collections, The Tombstone Race and Flight and Other Stories. He worked as an English/Spanish court and conference interpreter in New Mexico before earning his MFA in fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His fiction and translations have appeared in Quarterly West, Colorado Review, Other Voices, Bilingual Review, Puerto del Sol, and other literary journals, and his nonfiction in anthologies such as Desde las Heridas: Transborder Testimonies and Our Lost Border: Essays on Life Amid the Narco-Violence. He was co-founder and director of the bilingual MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Texas-Pan American. He now lives in Austin, Texas.

Oscar Cásares is the author of the story collection Brownsville, and the novel Amigoland, which have earned him fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Copernicus Society of America, and the Texas Institute of Letters. His first book, Brownsville, was selected by American Library Association as a Notable Book of 2004.  Amigoland, a novel also set in Brownsville, was the 2009 selection for the Mayor’s Book Club in Austin, a citywide reading campaign supported by the Austin Public Library. His essays have appeared in Texas Monthly, the New York Times, and on National Public Radio. His new novel, Where We Come From, is due out May 2019. Since 2004, he has taught creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin.