Ruffin Does College Station Encore
 On
Saturday Ruffin will return to College Station, this time
without Hale.
At 7 p.m., Saturday short story writer, poet, and newspaper
columnist Paul Ruffin will return to the College Station Barnes
and Noble to read from and sign copies of his latest books.
He and Houston Chronicle columnist Leon Hale were the featured
authors at the grand opening of the College Station Barnes
and Noble in 1997.
Ruffin, who doesn't mind being called Paul, said that Hale
doesn't particularly like his (Hale's) first name, so Ruffin
just calls him Hale.
Ruffin is professor of English at Sam Houston State University,
where he also edits The Texas Review and directs Texas Review
Press (a member of the Texas A & M University Press Consortium).
He is the author of the novel "Pompeii Man" (with
a second novel, "Castle in the Gloom", due out from
University Press of Mississippi in 2004), two collections
of stories, and five collections of poetry, and editor or
co-editor of 11 other books.
His work has appeared widely in magazines, journals, anthologies,
and major university texts and has been featured on National
Public Radio.
Ruffin also writes a weekly column that appears in several
papers in Texas, Alabama, and Mississippi. His fourth collection
of poems, "Circling," won the Mississippi Institute
of Arts and Letters Poetry Prize in 1997, and the "Dictionary
of Literary Biography Yearbook" cited his second collection
of stories, "Islands, Women, and God," as one of
the best books of short stories published in America in 2001
and listed "Pompeii Man" as an Outstanding American
Novel for 2002.
Ruffin will be reading from his new collection of poems, "The
Book of Boys and Girls," and from a book he is currently
revising for publication: "Growing Up in Mississippi
Poor and White But Not Quite Trash." A number of his
titles are on sale at Barnes and Noble.
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Text submitted by Barbara Miles
SHSU Media Contact: Frank
Krystyniak
Nov. 17, 2003
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