The Southern Lit Alliance will present “An Evening with Tony Earley” aspart of its So Lit Book Club on Thursday, Nov. 13, 5:30 p.m. at green|spaces, 63 East Main St.
Mr. Earley is the author of two novels and three short story collections, among them Jim the Boy
and Here We Are in Paradise. His fiction has earned a National Magazine Award, and has
appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s and Best American Short Stories. Mr. Earley’s latest book, Mr. Tall (published in August 2014), is a novella and a collection of short stories.
Named one of the 20 best writers of his generation by both Granta and The New Yorker, Mr. Earley’s
work has appeared in The Oxford American, The New York Times book review, The Best American
Short Stories and New Stories from the South.
Mr. Earley is the Samuel Milton Fleming chair of English at Vanderbilt University, and resides in
Nashville. He is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
“An Evening with Tony Earley” is free and open to the public. His book Mr. Tall will be available
for purchase at the reading. For more information, visit So Lit’s web site,
SouthernLitAlliance.org/Happenings.