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Behind the Book Reading
Series
Join us on September 13th from 7:00 to 9:00 at KGB Bar , when the Behind the Book hosts another evening of free readings by exceptional writers - Nicholas Christopher , Carole Muske-Dukes , and Alain Mabanckou .
WHAT: The Behind the Book Reading Series
WHEN: Thursday, September 13th, from 7:00 to 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:
Nicholas Christopher is the author of fourteen books: five novels - A Trip to the Stars, Veronica, Franklin Flyer, The Soloist, and The Bestiary, published in July ; eight books of poetry, most recently Crossing the Equator: New & Selected Poems, 1972-2004, which was reissued in paperback in April; and a nonfiction book, Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir & the American City, which appeared in an expanded tenth-anniversary edition last year. He has also edited two poetry anthologies. Over the years he has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker and has published his work in other leading magazines, including Esquire, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, and The Paris Review. He is a professor in the graduate Writing Division of the School of the Arts at Columbia, and lives in New York.
Carol Muske-Dukes is the author of seven books of poetry and four novels. Her fourth novel Channeling Mark Twain was published in early July and sits on the LA Times Bestseller List. Her most recent volume of poetry Sparrow was a National Book Award finalist. She has also written two collections of essays. Among her awards are the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award of the Poetry Society of America, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, an Ingram-Merrill grant, a Witter/Bynner Award from the Library of Congress, and several Pushcart Prizes. Her poems have been anthologized in Best American Poetry , One Hundred Great Poems by Women , MotherSongs , and many others. She is the founding director of the PhD Program in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California, where she teaches in addition to Columbia University and Montclair State University.
Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in Congo-Brazzaville (French Congo). One of Francophone Africa's most prolific contemporary writers, he was selected by the French journal Lire as one of the 50 writers to watch out for in the coming century. Reviewed in the August 27th issue of the New Yorker , African Psycho is his most recent novel. He received the 1999 Sub-Saharan Africa Literary Prize for his first novel, Blue-White-Red , the Prize of the Five Francophone Continents for Broken Glass , and the 2006 Prix Renaudot for Memoirs of a Porcupine . He is the author of six volumes of poetry and six novels. He currently resides in Los Angeles, where he teaches literature at UCLA. He will be a Fellow in the Humanities Council at Princeton University in 2007-2008.
Christine Schwartz Hartley will be translating for Alain. The former deputy editor of Art + Auction magazine, Christine is a freelance editor, translator, and writer based in Paris and Brooklyn. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times Book Review , Village Voice , Interior Design , and Elle Decor , among other publications. French-born, she holds a licence ès-lettres (English) from the Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, a diploma from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, and a master's in journalism from New York University. She is the translator of African Psycho .
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.
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