Award-winning writer Tony Hillerman will kick off the summer lecture series “Voices of the Southwest” on Tuesday, June 7, at 6:30 p.m. at the Student Union Ballroom on the University of New Mexico campus. He will read from his latest book “Skeleton Man,” present a talk and answer questions. He will also conduct a book signing at the end of the evening. The series is free to the public and will be broadcast live by KUNM radio.
This is the third consecutive year UNM has presented Albuquerque’s finest authors for the lecture series. The lecture series has been designated a Tricentennial event for the university. All lectures, with the exception of Hillerman’s will be presented on Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. in Anthropology 163 on the UNM Main Campus.
“Voices of the Southwest” speakers
June 14 - Albuquerque Journal columnist Jim Belshaw and collaborator Beth Corbin-Hsi, the wife of a deceased physician whose remarkable journal is changing the practice of medicine, will present “Closing the Chart: A Dying Physician Examines Family, Faith and Medicine.”
June 21 - Freelance journalist Pari Noskin Taichert, will present her debut novel “The Clovis Incident: A Mystery.” On the same program, noted anthropologist David E. Stuart will read from his Pulitzer entry novel “The Guaymas Chronicles: La Mandadera.”
June 28 – Judith Van Gieson, the nationally-known, award-winning writer will present “The Shadow of Venus,” a Claire Reynier mystery.
July 5 – Demetria Martinez, winner of the Western States Award for Fiction, presents her book “Mother Tongue.” Also presenting on July 5 is Sherry Robinson, journalist and freelance writer who will discuss her non-fiction book “Apache Voices: Their Stories of Survival As Told to Eve Ball.”
July 12 – David E. Stuart will read from his second volume “The Guaymas Chronicles: Zone of Tolerance” and Max Evans, the dean of contemporary southwestern writers and author of classics “The Hi-Lo Country” and “Rounders,” will present along with his biographer, Slim Randles, “Ol’ Max Evans: The First Thousand Years.”
For more information regarding the “Voices of the Southwest” lecture series, please contact The University of New Mexico’s “Summer in the Southwest” at (505) 277-4854 or visit at: www.summerinthesw.com.
Contact: Karen Wentworth (505) 277-5627