Next show: Fiction on May 8

Featuring fiction readings by:

Louisville native Tania James is the author of Atlas of Unknowns, her debut novel recently published by Alfred Knopf. A graduate of the Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts, she studied filmmaking at Harvard University and received her MFA in fiction from Columbia University. Her story "Aerogrammes," published in One Story, was selected as one of the 100 Distinguished Stories of 2008 by Best American Short Stories. Read the recent Courier-Journal article about James and her work.

Thomas Jeffrey Vasseur is the author of Discovering the World: Thirteen Stories and Touch the Earth: An Aftermath of the Vietnam War. He has received a Utah Fiction Award, a North Point Fellowship, an NEH Grant to UC Berkeley, and is a two-time finalist for Georgia’s Townsend Award for fiction. A native of Kentucky, he graduated from Transylvania University with a degree in English and Philosophy and received a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Utah. He teaches in the English department at Valdosta State University and is the former MFA coordinator at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Our musical guest in May will be Louisville singer/songwriter Nick Peay.

Copies of these books and more will be available for sale at InKY thanks to Carmichael's Bookstore, Louisville's oldest independent bookseller. Carmichael's Bookstore recently celebrated its 30th anniversary as Louisville's oldest and largest independent bookstore. Both Carmichael's locations, one on Bardstown Road and one on Frankfort Avenue, are open seven days a week.

The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, supports InKY, Inc., with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.