Friday, March 31: Kevin Canty, one of our own University of Montana Department of English faculty, will read from his new novel, The Underworld. 7pm.

Master storyteller Kevin Canty returns with The Underworld, a lyrical, haunting novel about a hardscrabble small town in Idaho and the disaster that comes to define it. Inspired by a disastrous mine fire in the early 1970s, The Underworld gracefully imagines a community shattered, and ultimately altered and rebuilt, by tragedy.

Kevin Canty is the author of four novels and three short story collections and has been published in The New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, and the New York Times Magazine. He currently teaches at the University of Montana in Missoula.