Behind the Book Reading Series

Join us on Thursday, December 14th, for an evening of exceptional fiction by Jennifer Egan , Sigrid Nunez , and Katharine Weber in the Behind the Book Reading Series at KGB Bar .

WHEN: Thursday, December 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: 212-924-0654/readingseries@behindthebook.org or www.kgbbar.com

WHO:

Jennifer Egan is the author of three novels, The Invisible Circus , Look at Me , which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and The Keep , her latest, which was just named a New York Times Notable Book of 2006 .   She is also author of a short story collection, Emerald City .   She has published short fiction in The New Yorker , Harper's , Zoetrope , and Ploughshares , among others, and her journalism appears frequently in the New York Times Magazine .   She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was recently a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.   She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and sons.

Sigrid Nunez has published five novels: A Feather on the Breath of God , Naked Sleeper , Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury , For Rouenna , and The Last of Her Kind .   A Feather on the Breath of God was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction and the Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers Award and received the Association for Asian American Studies Award for "Best Novel of the Year." Mitz won the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.   Ms. Nunez has received two Pushcart Prizes, a Whiting Writers' Award, a Rome Prize Fellowship in Literature, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, and a Lannan Foundation residency; in 2003, she was elected as a Literature Fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.   She holds a 2006 Fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts.   She lives in New York City.

Katharine Weber's fiction debut, the short story "Friend of the Family," appeared in The New Yorker and featured as a chapter in her first novel, Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear , which was named a New York Times Notable Book of 1995.   In 1996, Granta magazine named her to its list of        50 Best Young American Novelists.   Her second novel, The Music Lesson , was a both a New York Times Notable Book and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1999 and has been published in eleven languages.   Her third novel, The Little Women , was named a 2003 New York Times Notable Book, a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year, and a Library Journal Best Book of the Year.   Her fourth and most recent novel, Triangle , takes up the notorious Triangle Waist company factory fire of 1911.   Her book reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times Book Review , The Boston Globe , The Los Angeles Times Book Review , The Chicago Tribune , The London Review of Books , Washington Post Bookworld , and Vogue .   She lives in Connecticut.

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