Behind the Book Reading Series

After going dark in March (we were on vacation....), the Behind the Book Reading Series is back, bringing Natalie Danford, Adam Rapp, and Anthony Tognazzini to KGB Bar on Thursday, April 12th, from 7:00-9:00pm.

WHAT: Behind the Book Reading Series

WHEN: Thursday, April 12th, 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: readingseries@behindthebook.org or www.kgbbar.com

WHO:
Natalie Danford is an author, editor, and journalist.  He first novel, Inheritance, was published in winter 2007 to great reviews (see NYT Book Review of 3/25). She is the series co-editor for Best New American Voices, an annual anthology that showcases emerging writers of fiction as chosen by distinguished writers such as Francine Prose, Joyce Carol Oates, and Jane Smiley.  Her articles and reviews have appeared in People, Health, Pages, Paste, Salon, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Los Angeles Times, and many other publications.  Natalie is also an accomplished translator of Italian.  She lives in New York City.

Adam Rapp is a novelist, filmmaker, an OBIE Award-winning playwright and director, and the resident playwright for Edge Theater. Adam is the author of six young adult novels and the just-released adult novel, The Year of Endless Sorrows. His plays include, among others, Red Light Winter (Pulitzer Prize finalist, Obie Award), Blackbird (two Drama Desk nominations), Stone Cold Dead Serious, Nocturne, and Finer Noble Gases.  His first feature film, Winter Passing, starring Ed Harris, Will Ferrell, and Zooey Deschanel, was released last year. He is currently in post-production with his second feature, Blackbird, which he adapted from his play.

Anthony Tognazzini is a poet, fiction writer, and journalist whose first book, I Carry a Hammer in My Pocket for Occasions Such as These, will be released in April.  His poetry and short fictions have appeared in Quarterly West, Paragraph, Salt Hill, The Hat, Mississippi Review, Double Room, Quick Fiction, and The Alaska Quarterly Review, among other journals. His work has also appeared in the collections Sudden Stories: A Mammoth Anthology of Minuscule Fiction and PP/FF: An Anthology.  Anthony has received, among others, an AWP Award, a Greer Artist Foundation Fellowship, a Hemingway Fellowship, a Prague Summer Writer's Workshop Fellowship, and an Academy of American Poets prize.  He lives in New York City.

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