# Event Details - **Event Name**: Book Launch: A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction by Elizabeth McCracken - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join author Elizabeth McCracken for the launch of her book A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction (2025).About this EventJoin author Elizabeth McCracken, author and professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, for the launch of her book A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction (2025). She will be in conversation with Greg Marshall and Lucas Schaefer, two brilliant writeres who studies with Elizabeth at UT. Book sales, a signing, and a reception will follow the program.This program is co-sponsored with the Texas Book Festival.McCracken is the author of four novels, three collections of short stories, and a memoir. Her stories have won three Pushcart Prizes, two National Magazine Awards, and have appeared in five editions of The Best American Short Stories and on three episodes of Selected Shorts. A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction will be published in December.A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Prose, Greg Marshall is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers. His memoir, Leg, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the Randy Shilts Award. He lives in Austin with his family.Lucas Schaefer lives with his family in Austin. The Slip is his first novel.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 in advance. Doors to our theater will open approximately 30 minutes before the event begins. No food or beverages are allowed inside our theater or gallery space. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/austin/book-launch-a-long-game-notes-on-writing-fiction-by-elizabeth-mccracken/100001602379362809 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, festivals, theatre - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## 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**: Book Launch: A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction by Elizabeth McCracken - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/d34bb481be7ffad1bd3525c06dda96713f69f122d3e5607b4cb48b0dc7ac1764-rimg-w1200-h600-dccc1527-gmir.jpg?v=1757271857 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Book Launch: A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction by Elizabeth McCracken being held? - **A:** Book Launch: A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction by Elizabeth McCracken takes place on Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 06:00 pm to Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 08:00 pm at Harry Ransom Center, 300 West 21st Street, Austin, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Book Launch: A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction by Elizabeth McCracken? - **A:** Book Launch: A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction by Elizabeth McCracken is organized by Harry Ransom Center. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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