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. Also worth noting: we’re offering 20% OFF ALL FICTION TITLES during Novel Night (from 6pm till closing).
This month’s Novel Night authors are Marc Grossberg and Glen Larum. Marc will be reading from legal thriller The Best People. Glen will introduce his modern western, Waltz Against the Sky.
A legal drama and social satire set after Enron and before the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, The Best People portrays a Houston as it is: a glitzy meritocracy populated with larger-than-life characters. It is the landscape where the country-club and café-society sets clash amidst clever legal maneuvering, big law firm politics, a Ponzi scheme, and judicial corruption.
Marc Grossberg is an observer and a listener. He has a passion for his family, friends and clients, and for books that entertain and provoke him. He has practiced law in his native Houston for over fifty years. Somehow he overcame being a Board Certified tax lawyer and one of the Best Lawyers in America© to write The Best People. Marc is a proud product of the Houston public schools, the University of Houston, and the University of Texas School of Law. He lives in the NOW and goes wherever his “green light” tells him the intersection might be interesting.
Larum’s West Texas–based debut novel offers interconnected tales of murder and mayhem . . . Larum had a career as a newspaper editor in the West, and it shows; it’s clear that he knows what the particular emptiness of the region feels like—and he makes readers feel it, too . . . An excellent book about desperate people carefully depicted in minute detail. —starred Kirkus review
Glen Larum was born on an eastern Montana ranch just before the midway mark of the last century. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Montana Western and went on to become an award-winning newspaper reporter and editor in Montana, Colorado, and Texas before becoming a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Transportation’s Odessa District until his retirement in 2010, when he was commended for his contributions to state and community in an official Resolution (H.R. 128) of the Texas House of Representatives. His debut novel, Waltz Against the Sky, is set in West Texas in the 1970s, somewhere between Odessa-Midland and the Rio Grande. He feels most at home in places like that, where you can see both where you’ve been and where you are going, the legacy of a childhood spent on the Montana prairie. He and his wife, Pat, a retired psychotherapist, have ceased wandering and now live in a secluded corner of far southeast Austin, a few short steps away from the open spaces of a state park.
