In 2008, Sergio De La Pava self-published his 700-page-debut novel, A Naked Singularity, to little fanfare, until an intrepid reviewer at the Quarterly Conversation snagged a copy and lit up the blogosphere with chatter that the book was “one of the best—and most original—novels of the decade.” Republished in 2012 by the University of Chicago Press, the sprawling, obsessive opus—a potboiler for literary introverts interested in whittling away at the inheritances of Dostoevsky, Melville, and Woolf—has since been profiled by the Millions, the Chicago Tribune, and the Wall Street Journal. It was a finalist for the Believer magazine 2013 Book Award. His second novel, Personae, will be published later this year. This Lindsey Literary Series event is sponsored by the Burdine Johnson Foundation and Texas State’s Wittliff Collections, Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center, and Department of English.