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Behind the Book Reading Series

On March 11th, spend an evening with Behind the Book and three exceptional writers: Jonathan Dee and Adam Haslett. Check out the recent NPR segment on Jonathan Dee's and Adam Haslett's new novels on money and morals, read The New York Times book reviews for The Privileges and Union Atlantic.

WHAT: The Behind the Book Reading Series

WHEN: Thursday, March 11th, 7:00-9:00pm – FREE

WHERE: KGB Bar, 85 East Fourth Street
(btwn Second & Third Aves.; take the F/V to Second Ave. or the 6 to Astor Place)

CONTACT: info@behindthebook.org or http://www.kgbbar.com

WHO:

Jonathan Dee is the author of five novels, most recently The Privileges, which The Washington Post called scintillating. He is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, a frequent contributor to Harper's, and a former senior editor of The Paris Review. He teaches in the graduate writing programs at Columbia University and the New School.

Adam Haslett is the author of the novel Union Atlantic and the short story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here, which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award and has been translated into fifteen languages. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center, and residences at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. His essays and fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Short Stories, and National Public Radio's Selected Shorts.

MORE:
Behind the Book is a literacy nonprofit working with low-income students in NYC public schools. Our mission is to excite children and young adults about reading. Working in the 1st -12th grades, we bring authors and their books into individual classrooms to build literacy skills and a new generation of book readers. www.behindthebook.org

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Recent Behind the Book Readings:

January 14, 2010
Brad Leithauser and Katharine Weber

December 10, 2009
Elizabeth Nunez and Victor LaValle

November 12, 2009
Stephen Elliot, Nancy Mauro, and Brian DeLeeuw

October 8, 2009
Lev Grossman, Rivka Galchen, and Ed Park

September 10, 2009
Stacey D'Erasmo and Nick Burd

June 11, 2009
Caitlin Macy, Arthur Phillips, and Mary Gaitskill

May 14, 2009
Christine Schutt and Ben Greenman

April 9, 2009
Robert Goolrick and Darin Strauss

March 12 , 2009
Deb Olin Unferth and Paul Harding

February 12 , 2009
Daphne Beal and David Ebershoff

January 8, 2009
Hannah Tinti and Allison Amend

November 13 , 2008
Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum and Karan Mahajan