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The Michener Center is bringing Michael Cunningham to Austin on Thursday, January 31, at 7:30pm in the Avaya Auditorium, A.C.E.S. Bldg., room 2.302 at the southeast corner of Speedway & 24th on the UT campus. Parking is available in UT parking garage No. 1 at 24th & San Jacinto, about two blocks east of the auditorium. Call 471-1601 for more info... There are still tickets left for tonight's opening lecture in KLRU's Distinguished Speaker Series. Sister Helen Prejean (Dead Man Walking) will speak at 7pm, Thursday, January 24, in the LBJ Library Auditorium (2314 Red River). Parking is available in the LBJ Library lot on Red River. Call 477-6060 for more info... Congrats to Liz Carpenter for being chosen as the poster figure for this year's Texas Writers Month (May) and to Literacy Austin for receiving accreditation from the Board of Directors of Literacy Volunteers of America Inc. Literacy Austin is the only literacy agency in Texas that passed muster... Darryl Wimberley has banged out another in his excellent hard-boiled series featuring Florida detective Barrett "Bear" Raines, Strawman's Hammock (Minotaur Books, $23.95). Wimberley will be at BookPeople tonight at 7pm... If you make it through the beginning of Thomas Perry's smart new thriller, Pursuit (Random House, $24.95) -- 13 bodies are discovered in a restaurant in Louisville after closing time, and it's apparent that the killer is a real professional -- you don't have too much to fear in what follows. Adventures in Crime & Space hosts Perry on Thursday, January 31, at 6pm... Ralph Nader will talk about and sign his new book Crashing the Party (St. Martin's, $24.95), from 10am to noon, on Sunday, January 27, at BookPeople... The Writers' League of Texas is hosting a fiction conference March 9-10 with Ann Patchett (Bel Canto) as the keynote speaker. Cost is $135 for TWL members and $180 for non-members. Deadline for registration is March 1. Call 499-8914.