mission freak!

Hey mates, down-under dweller and former Writers’ Workshop homeboy, Nam Le, returns to Iowa City tonight to read at Prairie Lights on the heels of his highly acclaimed book of short stories, The Boat (2008). While at the workshop Le defied the snotty stereotype one might conjure up of Northeastern, Ivy-adorned writers showing up in the IC and carpet-bagging the hell out of it while failing to spend time in places other than the Dey House and the Foxhead. By all accounts, mine included, Le was the coolest mofro to pass through the Workshop in many years. And on top of that, he is one of the best fiction writers to emerge from Iowa’s legendary literary halls in quite a long time. The Boat is just the beginning, we hope, of a killer career with words. We’d ramble on but the New York Times already did a much better job at filling in the particulars on this 29-year old scribe. Le reads tonight at Prairie Lights. 7PM is the start time. We suggest you arrive by 645PM at the latest.