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Behind the Book Reading
Series
Join us on Thursday, January 10 from 7:00 to 9:00 at KGB Bar , when Behind the Book hosts another evening of free readings by exceptional writers: Helen Benedict , Felicia Luna Lemus , and Karen Russell .
WHAT: The Behind the Book Reading Series
WHEN: Thursday, January 10, 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: Helen Benedict is the author of four books of nonfiction and the novels A World Like This , Bad Angel , and The Sailor's Wife . Her latest novel is The Opposite of Love . Helen has published articles, essays, and reviews in The New York Times , The Washington Post , The Nation , The Women's Review of Books , and elsewhere. She is at work on a new novel as well as a nonfiction book, The Lonely Soldier: Women at War in Iraq , to be published in 2009. A former newspaper reporter, she is a professor of journalism at Columbia University .
Felicia Luna Lemus is the author of the novels Like Son and Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties . Her writing has appeared in anthologies including That's So You , Fifteen Candles: 15 Tales of Taffeta, Hairspray, Drunk Uncles, and Other Quinceañera Stories , A Fictional History of the United States With Huge Chunks Missing , Bottom's Up , and in magazines including BOMB and The Believer . She has taught fiction writing at universities The New School and U.C.L.A.
Karen Russell is the author of the short story collection, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. She has been featured in both The New Yorker's debut fiction issue and New York magazine's list of twenty-five people to watch under the age of twenty-six. She is a graduate of the Columbia MFA program and is the 2005 recipient of the Transatlantic Review/Henfield Foundation Award. Her fiction has recently appeared in Conjunctions , Granta , Zoetrope , Oxford American , and The New Yorker .
MORE:
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. www.behindthebook.org
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Recent Behind the Book Readings:
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Mary Gordon, Maxine Swann, Kelly Braffet
November 8, 2007
Susanna Moore and Stephanie Elizondo Griest
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
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