https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/books/2010-02-07/954649/

Go Greek

By Kimberley Jones, February 7, 2010, 8:53am, Under the Covers

The classics keep on ticking, and tickling the imagination of modern authors – in these first two months of 2010 alone, we’ve seen David Malouf’s Illiad-reimagining Ransom and Zachary Mason’s The Lost Books of the Odyssey. Now Austin author Katharine Beutner has got into the act, too, with Alcestis.

Out this month from SoHo Press Books, Alcestis rethinks Greek mythology’s most martyred wife. Publishers Weekly says Beutner “renders her multilayered heroine with beauty and delicacy, and concerns herself with no less than the intricacies of the soul.”

Beutner, a University of Texas graduate student, will read from Alcestis at BookPeople today (Sunday, Feb. 7) at 3pm. Yes, we know, the timing is crummy, but hey, the SuperBowl will be here next year, too.