Join us for our season kickoff event: A conversation with Manuel Gonzales, author of The Regional Office is Under Attack! (2017) and the short story collection The Miniature Wife and Other Stories (2013).

The book explores comic book and movie tropes, and weaves them into a profound and thoughtful meditation on human nature, cherished institutions, and narrative convention. Lit Hub said, “With this debut novel, Gonzales… proves himself to be both a wonderful addition to a proud literary tradition (that of Vonnegut, Borges, Saunders, Bender, and Barthelme, et al) and a true original.”

4:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 2
University at Albany
Multi-Purpose Room - Campus Center West
1400 Washington Avenue, Albany NY 12222

Free and open to the public
Books will be for sale and a signing will follow the conversation.

More information -- including a campus map -- at https://www.nyswritersinstitute.org/manuelgonzalez-2025