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X-WR-CALNAME:The Hemingway Center Reading Series presents: Fernando Flores
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DESCRIPTION:The Hemingway Center Reading Series and Creative Writing MFA Pr
 ogram present author Fernando Flores\, \n\n“Flores’s style has an exhi
 larating punk\, D.I.Y. aplomb\; it’s as if he feels he’s inventing lit
 erature for the first time.” ―Mark Leyner\, The New York Times Book Re
 view\n\n“Flores’s fiction possesses the aspect of a dream.” ―David
  L. Ulin\, The Atlantic\n\nEvent Details\n\nAt 7 PM on Friday\, April 17\,
  2026\, Flores will give a reading of his work\, followed by a Q and A and
  book signing. Free and open to the public\, the Hemingway Center Reading 
 Series brings renowned writers to campus each year.\n\nAbout Fernando Flor
 es\n\nBorn in Reynosa\, Tamaulipas\, Mexico\, Fernando A. Flores grew up i
 n South Texas. He authored the collections "Death to the Bullshit Artists 
 of South Texas" and "Valleyesque\," along with the novels "Tears of the Tr
 ufflepig" and "Brother Brontë\," one of Kirkus' Best of Fiction 2025. He 
 lives in Austin\, Texas. \n\nPraise for Fernando Flores\n\n"["Brother Bron
 të" is] An absolute blast to read. Its madcap\, carnivalesque backdrop is
  rendered in psychedelic polychromatics . . . Flores’s style has an exhi
 larating punk\, D.I.Y. aplomb\; it’s as if he feels he’s inventing lit
 erature for the first time here\, with all the lordly de haut en bas of an
  autodidact . . . This is not a book for the abstemious reader. It’s an 
 all-you-can-eat buffet of sumptuous language to gorge on . . . Of course\,
  the criminalization of book possession\, the notion of reading as taboo\,
  as transgression\, would make almost any text that much more titillating.
  But I must say\, from my subterranean lair\, hidden from the drones of th
 e chupacabras\, that I haven’t read a novel so rambunctiously lyrical an
 d as gloriously evangelical about literature in a long time. Bravo to Brot
 her Brontë himself\, Fernando A. Flores." ―Mark Leyner\, The New York T
 imes Book Review\n\n"[Flores'] prose is evocative\, electric\, and wildly 
 original . . . This is a wild ride of a novel\, and a fascinating look at 
 a future that\, sadly\, seems frighteningly plausible. A stunning tale of 
 survival and a biting critique of book bans and late capitalism." ―Kirku
 s (starred review)
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LOCATION:Center for the Visual Arts (CVA)\, Atrium
SUMMARY:The Hemingway Center Reading Series presents: Fernando Flores
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CATEGORIES:Student Life
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