MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2026 | 7:30–9 PM: Inprint, Houston’s premier literary arts nonprofit organization, presents Pulitzer Prize winner Hernan Diaz as part of the 2026/2027 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. Diaz will read from his new novel Ply, followed by an on-stage conversation with author and former Houston Chronicle book editor Maggie Galehouse. The event will conclude with a book signing in the lobby. General admission tickets are $5 and are on sale starting September 21. Free tickets for students and senior citizens are available by request. Books will be on sale at a discount at the event through Brazos Bookstore.

After rewriting America’s past in his two previous novels, from 1920s Wall Street to the 19^th century western frontier, Diaz turns to the future with his new novel Ply. A combination of Dickensian odyssey, family drama, and scientific thriller, Ply examines the place of technology in the American imagination. Centuries from now, the state has been dismantled, and humans are reinventing social bonds and learning new ways to coexist with nature. Following a childhood defined by loss, survival, and found family, an orphan grows up to become a “pincher,” someone who steals electricity from the grid to sell it on the black market. “Diaz brilliantly envisions how love, trust, and loyalty can remain when freedom and justice have collapsed and makes every page exhilarating and meaningful” (Library Journal, starred review).