Author Thrity Umrigar, former BJ reporter, will be reading from her native India-setting 6^th novel, “The Story Hour,” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11 in the Market Garden Brewery, 1947 West 25^th Street in Ohio City, Cleveland.

The other reader for the Brews + Prose event will be Kevin Keating, famed sports autograph collector and author of “The Natural Order of Things,” a novel that features the abuse of animals, prostitutes, handicapped children and about every husband and wife in town.

·        Keating visited Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Warren Spahn at the lefty’s Broken Arrow, Oklahoma home, got his autograph and had his picture taken with the other half of Spahn and (Johnny) Sain and pray for rain of the Milwaukee Braves heydey. Spahn died a few days later in 2003.

Keating was Spahn’s player memorabilia agent for years.

Keating and his wife also were at the White House with President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush.

Thrity has been in the Brews + Prose spotlight before. Former BJ columnist and author David Giffels and PD Pulitzer winner Connie Schultz have appeared at the events, too.

Bombay, India native Thrity’s previous novels are “Bombay Time” (2002), “The Space Between Us” (2007), “If Today be Sweet” (2008), “The Weight of Heaven” (2010) and “The World We Found” (2012), and all set in the country of her birth, as was her memoir, “First Darling of the Morning”  (2008).