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Behind the Book Reading Series

Join us on November 8 from 7:00 to 9:00 at KGB Bar, when the Behind the Book hosts another evening of free readings by exceptional writers Susanna Moore and Stephanie Elizondo Griest.

WHAT: The Behind the Book Reading Series

WHEN: Thursday, November 8, 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

Susanna Moore is the author of the novels One Last Look, In the Cut, Sleeping Beauties, The Whiteness of Bones, and My Old Sweetheart, and a book of nonfiction, I Myself Have Seen It.

She was a volunteer teacher of creative writing at the Brooklyn Detention Center in 2005-6, teaching women prisoners. She now teaches creative writing at Friends of Island Academy in downtown Manhattan. Her students are young men and women on probation or parole from
incarceration in Rikers, prison or juvenile detention centers who are hoping to complete their high school education. They are writing their memoirs.

Susanna Moore will be teaching a creative writing workshop at Princeton in the fall of 2007, and travelling to Japan for two months this summer on a fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council to do research for new novel. She lives in New York City.

Stephanie Elizondo Griest has mingled with the Russian Mafia, polished Chinese propaganda, and belly danced with Cuban rumba queens. These adventures inspired her award-winning memoir Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana (Villard/Random House,
2004) and best-selling guidebook 100 Places Every Woman Should Go (Travelers’ Tales, 2007). Atria/Simon & Schuster will publish her memoir Mexican Enough: Life Between the Borderlines in 2008. She has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Latina Magazine, and a dozen Travelers' Tales anthologies. An avid traveler, she has explored 25 countries and once spent a year driving 45,000 miles across the United States, documenting its history for a website for kids called The Odyssey. A 2005-2006 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, she performs
and lectures nationwide and has held residencies at Art Omi International, Ragdale, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, and Dairy Hollow.

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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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Recent Behind the Book Readings:

October 11, 2007
Joshua Cohen, Rebecca Curtis, and Wayne Koestenbaum

September 13, 2007
Nicholas Christopher, Carol Muske-Dukes, and Alain Mabanckou

July 12, 2007
Will Allison, Arthur Phillips, and Helen Schulman

June 14, 2007
Victoria Redel, Dani Shapiro, and Darcey Steinke

May 10, 2007
John Haskell and Joshua Ferris

April 12 , 2007
Natalie Danford, Adam Rapp, and Anthony Tognazzini

February 8, 2007
Martha Southgate, Eisa Nefertari Ulen, Colson Whitehead

January 11, 2007
John Hodgman and Darin Strauss

December 14, 2006
Jennifer Egan, Sigrid Nunez, and Katharine Weber

November 9, 2006
Myla Goldberg and Rick Moody

October 12, 2006
Peter Behrens, Scott Snyder, and Lynne Tillman

September 14, 2006
Calvin Baker, Emily Barton, and Alix Ohlin

July 13, 2006
Marina Budhos, E.R. Frank, and Patty McCormick

June 8, 2006
Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop, Emily Raboteau, Patrick Ryan, and Justin Tussing

May 11, 2006
Ben Marcus

April 13, 2006
Angie Cruz, Nelly Rosario and Sheila Maldonado

March 9, 2006
Jonathan Ames and Thomas Beller

February 9, 2006
Sam Lipsyte and Christine Schutt

January 12, 2006
Nick McDonell and Ned Vizzini

December 8, 2005
Marcy Dermansky and Hannah Tinti

October 27, 2005
A. M. Homes and Adam Rapp