Novelist and short story writer Manuel Gonzales

Join us for our season kickoff event with Manuel Gonzales, author of The Regional Office is Under Attack! (2017) and the short story collection The Miniature Wife and Other Stories (2013).

"Regional Office" is a highly inventive novel about a team of female assassins charged with combating “the amassing forces of darkness that threaten, at nearly every turn, the fate of the planet.”

LitHub said, “With this debut novel, Gonzales… proves himself to be both a wonderful addition to a proud literary tradition (that of Vonnegut, Borges, Saunders, Bender, and Barthelme, et al) and a true original.”

4:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 2​
​University at Albany
Multi-Purpose Room - Campus Center West
1400 Washington Avenue, Albany NY 12222

Free and open to the public
Books will be for sale and a signing will follow the conversation.

More information -- including a campus map -- at https://www.nyswritersinstitute.org/manuelgonzalez-2025

You may also like the following events from New York State Writers Institute:

• This Thursday, 4th September, 07:30 pm, Conversation with poet Edward Hirsch in Albany
• This Friday, 5th September, 07:30 pm, Conversation with Peter Wolf, author and former lead singer of The J. Geils Band in Albany
• Next Thursday, 11th September, 04:30 pm, Conversation with Keach Hagey, reporter and author in Albany

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