Behind the Book Reading Series

Acclaimed authors Calvin Baker, Emily Barton , and Alix Ohlin usher in autumn with exceptional storytelling when The Behind the Book Reading Series at KGB Bar resumes on Thursday, September 14, at 7:00pm.  Join us in enjoying these young authors' lauded work.

WHEN: Thursday, September 14, from 7:00-9:00pm.  FREE.

WHERE: KGB Bar, 85 East Fourth Street
(between Second & Third Aves.; take the F/V to Second Ave. or the No. 6 to Astor Place).

CONTACT: 212-505-3360/ www.kgbbar.com or readingseries@behindthebook.org

WHO:
Calvin Baker was born in Chicago and graduated from Amherst College. He first entered the literary landscape at the age of twenty-three with the publication of a novel, Naming the New World . He has followed with two more novels, Once Two Heroes and Dominion , which has just been released by Grove Atlantic Press. Mr. Baker has taught at Columbia and Barnard and worked as a writer for People and Life. He lives in New York City.

Emily Barton's first novel, The Testament of Yves Gundron was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Month. Her new book, Brookland , was published this year. Ms. Barton won the 2002 Bard Fiction Prize, and currently holds both a Guggenheim Fellowship and an artist's grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is on academic leave this year from Eugene Lang College of the New School, where she teaches fiction.

Alix Ohlin is the author of Babylon and Other Stories and The Missing Person , a novel. Her writing has appeared in Best American Short Stories , Best New American Voices , The Believer , and on NPR's "Selected Shorts." Ms. Ohlin has received awards and fellowships from The Atlantic Monthly , the MacDowell Colony, The Kenyon Review's Writers Workshop, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and Yaddo. She teaches at Lafayette College in Easton, PA.

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