# Event Details - **Event Name**: Author Reading and Discussion: Jayne Anne Phillips's Small Town Girls - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 10 Sep, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 10 Sep, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-05:00) - **Event Description**: About this EventJoin Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jayne Anne Phillips as she discusses her latest work, Small Town Girls (2026). Book sales, a signing, and a reception will follow the program. Small Town Girls, Phillips’s ninth book and first nonfiction title, is a luminous “writer’s memoir” in essays. Phillips reflects on her origins and the mysteries of memory. In her singular first-person voice, she brings us into her childhood and family, most movingly her closeness with her mother. She writes of her relationships with inspiration, spirituality, culture, and the troubled annals of the last American centuries.Born in West Virginia in 1952, Jayne Anne Phillips published her first story collection in 1976. The publication of Black Tickets in 1979 prompted Nadine Gordimer to call Phillips “the best short story writer since Eudora Welty.” Phillips is the author of Machine Dreams, Fast Lanes, Shelter, MotherKind, Lark and Termite, Quiet Dell, and Night Watch, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. Her work has been a finalist once for the National Book Award and twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, Howard, Bunting, and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her archive joined the Ransom Center’s collections in 2009.Please have your reservation confirmation ready upon entering. A reservation does not guarantee a seat. Line forms upon arrival of the first patron, and doors open 30 minutes before the event begins. No food or beverages are allowed inside our theater or gallery space. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/austin/author-reading-and-discussion-jayne-anne-phillipss-small-town-girls/100001990518302827 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, fine-arts, theatre - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Age Limit: all_ages - door_time: 2026-09-10T22:00:00Z - Duration: 2 hours - Location: Harry Ransom Center - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Austin - **state**: TX - **country**: United States - **location**: Harry Ransom Center - **lat**: 30.2843324 - **long**: -97.741221 - **full address**: Harry Ransom Center, 300 West 21st Street, Austin, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Author Reading and Discussion: Jayne Anne Phillips's Small Town Girls - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/00b3b084424771b6a0343ed19fca6f8d18d4b56c92bbc54ef6c8d42bc60e8984-rimg-w1200-h600-dccc1527-gmir.jpg?v=1783779601 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Author Reading and Discussion: Jayne Anne Phillips's Small Town Girls being held? - **A:** Author Reading and Discussion: Jayne Anne Phillips's Small Town Girls takes place on Thu, 10 Sep, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Thu, 10 Sep, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Harry Ransom Center, 300 West 21st Street, Austin, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Author Reading and Discussion: Jayne Anne Phillips's Small Town Girls? - **A:** Author Reading and Discussion: Jayne Anne Phillips's Small Town Girls is organized by Harry Ransom Center. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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