On Tuesday, Oct. 7, 7:30 pm, in the IDX Student Life Center Gymnasium, the Champlain College Community Book Program will host T.C. Boyle, author of The Tortilla Curtain, for a reading/discussion and book signing. The reading will be open to the public. Ticket reservations can be made by calling 865-5491 or emailing communitybook@champlain.edu.Tickets are free.

T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of 19 books of fiction, including, most recently, After the Plague (2001), Drop City (2003), The Inner Circle (2004), Tooth and Claw (2005), and Talk Talk (2006). He received a Ph.D. degree in 19th Century British Literature from the University of Iowa in 1977, his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1974, and his B.A. in English and History from SUNY Potsdam in 1968. He has been a member of the English Department at the University of Southern California since 1978.

His work has been translated into more than two dozen foreign languages, including German, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, Korean, Japanese, Danish, Swedish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Finnish and Farsi. His stories have appeared in most of the major American magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, The Paris Review, GQ, Antaeus, Granta and McSweeney's, and he has been the recipient of a number of literary awards. He currently lives near Santa Barbara with his wife and three children.

This is Champlain College's 10^th Annual Community Book Program. Other featured authors have included Khaled Hosseini, Eric Schlosser, Dave Eggers, Tim O'Brien, Julia Alvarez, Julie Otsuka, Ernest Gaines, E.L. Doctorow and Helen Fremont. The program has covered topics ranging from World War II (the American-Japanese Internment and Holocaust), the Dominican Republic, fast food, Afghanistan, Sudanese refugees, the Vietnam War, New York at the turn of the century and race relations. And this year, the focus is immigration.

For more information, Communitybook@champlain.edu