Tickets on Sale for 4th Annual Reading Between the Wines

The planning committee for this year’s Reading Between the Wines: Sonal Bhuchar, Mike Dacey, Mary Gayle Brindley, Cynthia Bartholomew, Nicola Johnson, Pat Hebert, Kelli Metzenthin, Lawren Eckhardt, Gena Horak, Helen Bow and Nancy Olson.

The planning committee for this year’s Reading Between the Wines: Sonal Bhuchar, Mike Dacey, Mary Gayle Brindley, Cynthia Bartholomew, Nicola Johnson, Pat Hebert, Kelli Metzenthin, Lawren Eckhardt, Gena Horak, Helen Bow and Nancy Olson.

Benefiting Literacy Council of Fort Bend County

One of the most anticipated Fort Bend fundraisers of the year, the 4th
Annual Reading Between the Wines benefiting the Literacy Council of Fort Bend County, returns to Richmond’s Safari Texas Ranch on Friday, April 1st at 6:30 pm.

Presented by The Fred and Mabel R. Parks Foundation, this year’s Reading Between the Wines will feature New York Times best-selling memoirist and poet Mary Karr, Ph.D. While at Reading Between the Wines, literary and wine enthusiasts will enjoy presentations from acclaimed authors, a generous
selection of outstanding wines and expertly prepared cuisine from local
restaurants and caterers.

Individual tickets for Reading Between the Wines are $125 and can
be purchased at www.ftbendliteracy.org. Sponsorship packages including
reserved seating, select bottles of wine, meet and greet and photo opportunity with Karr and more also can be purchased at the website and are available starting at $500.

Proceeds from Reading Between the Wines, co-chaired by Helen Bow and Gena Horak, will benefit the Literacy Council of Fort Bend County. For 28 years, the organization has strived to fill gaps in literacy services for those in need, have the capability to learn and the desire to move forward in life.

For more information, contact Nicola Johnson at 281-240-8181 or at
njohnson@ftbendliteracy.org.


200-maryMary Karr, Ph.D. Award-Winning  Memoirist and Poet

Mary Karr, Ph.D., an award-winning poet and New York Times best-selling memoirist, will be the featured author at Reading Between the Wines. She is the author of the critically acclaimed, best-selling memoirs The Liars’ Club, Cherry and Lit. Her latest book, The Art of Memoir, is a master class on the fastest-growing literary genre. A television series based on The Liars’ Club and Lit is in development with Showtime starring Mary Louise Parker as Karr and produced by Sarah Timberman.

In Karr’s The Art of Memoir talks, she brings a wealth of knowledge that comes from teaching literature and writing for nearly three decades and writing three critically acclaimed memoirs that are routinely named as the best in the genre. Anchored by excerpts from her favorite memoirs and anecdotes from fellow writers’ experience, she lays bare her own process.

The Liars’ Club won prizes for best first nonfiction from PEN (The Martha Albrand Award for nonfiction), the Texas Institute for Letters and was a finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Awards. It chronicled her hardscrabble Texas childhood with enough sass and literary verve to spark a renaissance in memoir, cresting the New York Times best-seller list for more than a year.

Cherry, her ecstatically reviewed account of a psychedelic adolescence and a moving sexual coming-of-age, followed it into best-sellerdom. Hailed as “the memoir of the season,” Lit chronicles Karr’s brazen battle into adulthood, taking readers on a journey into awe while tracing her search for the solid family she never had.