website of Erin Pringle
writer of fictions,
tender of small fires,
dreamer born out of the Midwest
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
July 31-August 2, 2009: Dogzplot Atlantic City Reading
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Reading At the Mudhouse

She meant to write first about the lovely time she had last night reading at The Space in Durham, NC, but she has to announce two, last-minute engagements.
She'll be reading at Mudhouse Coffeehouse and Espresso Bar in their Crozet and Charlottesville locations. You can find her in Crozet on Wednesday, July 29 (2009) @ 7 PM and then in Charlottesville on Thursday, July 30 (2009) @ 2 PM.
The Charlottesville Mudhouse: 213 West Main Street
The new Crozet Mudhouse: 5793 The Square
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
July 19, 2009: Michael Martone and Erin Pringle at Greencup Books in Birmingham
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Event begins at 8:30 PM.
Monday, July 6, 2009
July 18, 2009: Book Signing at Bienville Books, Mobile, Alabama

Bienville Books is in the heart of Mobile's historic district: 109 Dauphin Street, Mobile, Alabama.
Friday, July 3, 2009
July 8, 2009: Author Reading and Signing BookWoman in Austin

At 7 PM, Erin Pringle-Toungate will be reading from The Floating Order at Austin's Feminist Bookstore, BookWoman.
BookWoman is located at 5501 N. Lamar Blvd. #A-105, Austin, Texas. A book signing will follow the reading.
Friday, June 26, 2009
July 4, 2009: Reading at Burro Coffee & Stone River Festival
Erin will read from The Floating Order as part of the Stone River Festival, at Burro Coffee in Wimberley, TX. She's scheduled to read at noon.
Burro Coffee is located in the village square, near the store with the awesome animal sculptures.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
June 22, 2009: Erin Pringle at Cliff Bell's Monday Night Poetry and Slam Series

Cliff Bells is located at 2030 Park Avenue
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
June 20, 2009: Book-signing at Read Between the Lynes Bookstore


Friday, June 5, 2009
"Why Jimmy" on Audio Book Radio, June 2009

Monday, June 1, 2009
Nothing that Meets the Eye by Patricia Highsmith

Like several good collections, she slowed herself down in finishing it so as to savor the good reading.
Although Highsmith's known for The Talented Mr. Ripley, which she has not seen or read, and known as a mystery writer, much of the stories in Nothing That Meets the Eye would qualify for either the mystery or sleuth genres, which is neither here nor there unless you picked up the book expecting more of an Edgar Allan Poe rather than an O'Henry. The collection spans from 1938 to 1982 (on a personal note, from about the birth of Erin's mother to the birth of Erin), and the stories range in setting from Mexico to New York City to Evanston, IL. As of the time of this review, her favorite stories were "Where the Door is Always Open and the Welcome Mat is always Out" which is about an ex-taxi driver in his mid-30s who gets off the train in a small, idealistic town (the Americana pie town) and rents a room and tours the town while his perceptions change from tourist to native and the happiness he thought the town had brought him slowly decays as he becomes friends with a local girl.
Another story, "The Still Point of the Turning World" also deals with perception (though most every story does and quite well) and takes place in a small park and is told from both the point of view of a rich woman who takes her child to play there for the first time and, in her perception, an impoverished and dirty woman who also takes her child to play at the park. The ending is quite heartrending and perfect. "The Pianos of the Steinachs" is quite fine, too, perhaps simply because of the way Highsmith conveys the experience of playing and hearing piano music.
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Several years after reading the book, she still thinks of the stories, one very sweet one about a man who answers people's ads for their lost parakeets and another fun one about a single woman in the city who is getting her apartment together for her sister to visit, and another about a woman the last few days of her life. It is a book to return to, in mind or on the shelf where it awaits. Highsmith is definitely a master fiction writer--up there with Flannery O'Connor.
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Several years after reading the book, she still thinks of the stories, one very sweet one about a man who answers people's ads for their lost parakeets and another fun one about a single woman in the city who is getting her apartment together for her sister to visit, and another about a woman the last few days of her life. It is a book to return to, in mind or on the shelf where it awaits. Highsmith is definitely a master fiction writer--up there with Flannery O'Connor.
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