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Patrick deWitt will be in conversation with local novelist Jonathan Evison at University Book Store tonight. Books intern Candra Kolodziej explains why this is one of the most exciting readings of the week:

Patrick deWitt's latest novel, The Sisters Brothers, is like your favorite meal: full of unique yet familiar flavors, easily digestible but still filling. It evokes a time and place in your memory without being exactly of that time and place—a feeling you revel in the re-creation of even more than you would enjoy going back to the original experience at its source.

It's no surprise, then, that more comparisons have been drawn between The Sisters Brothers and the recent Coen brothers film adaptation of the novel True Grit by Charles Portis than between deWitt and Portis himself...(keep reading.)

(To find everything else that's going on tonight, including the latest entry in the very popular Breadline reading series at Vermillion, please visit the readings calendar.)