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 we’re delighted to be celebrating our first Pride-themed Novel Night with three guests: Michael Aaron Casares, who will be reading from his debut novel, The Distance To The End (Serasac Press, 2016); Lee Thomas, who will be reading from his crime novel, Down On Your Knees (Lethe Press, 2016); and María Limón, who will read from the story that appeared in the collection Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art (UT Press; 2016).

 Michael Aaron Casares is a writer and publisher. His debut novel, The Distance To The End, was featured in Publisher’s Weekly. He is also author of two collections of poetry, This Reality of Man (2011, LT Press), and Sad Height (2005, Virgogray Press). He has also authored several chapbooks of poetry, and has work published online and in print, the most recent being in the latest edition of Zombie Logic Review and Babbling of the Irrational. Michael edits the online poetry journal, Carcinogenic Poetry, and found the late indie publishing press, Virgogray Press. He lives in Austin, TX.

Lee Thomas is the two-time Lambda Literary Award- and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Stained, The Dust of Wonderland, The German, Torn, Like Light for Flies, and Down on Your Knees, among others. His work has been translated into multiple languages and has been optioned for film. Lee lives in Austin, Texas with his husband, John.