"Ordinary Sins" by Kirstin Valdez Quade

This evening, the University of Las Vegas' Black Mountain Institute is presenting Kirstin Valdez Quade as part of its Emerging Writers Series. You don't need to know that the National Book Foundation has named her one of 5 under 35 to understand how supremely talented--just read her work. ("Nemecia" is one of my favorites!)

Or listen to her read it: "Ordinary Sins" from The New Yorker.

And here she speaks a writing it.

Kirstin Valdez Quade