Department of English

• Friday, February 27, 2026 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm

american grammar Bookstore (2046 N. Front Street)

Ruben Reyes, Jr. will give a reading from his novel, Archive of Unknown Universes (HarperCollins 2025), at American Grammar followed by a discussion with Thomas Conners, Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, and a book signing. 

Ruben Reyes Jr. is the son of two Salvadoran immigrants and the author of There is a Rio Grande in Heaven, which was a finalist for the Story Prize, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Harvard College. His writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Slate, American Short Fiction, and other publications. Originally from Southern California, he now lives in Queens. Archive of Unknown Universes is his first novel.

This event is co-sponsored by the AmLit and Latinx Working Groups, as well as the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies.