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Behind the Book Reading
Series
Join us on Thursday, February 14 from 7:00 to 9:00 at KGB Bar , when Behind the Book hosts another evening of free readings by exceptional writers: Charles Bock and Peter Trachtenberg.
WHAT: The Behind the Book Reading Series
WHEN: Thursday, February 14, 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:
Charles Bock is the author of the debut novel Beautiful Children, which has been hailed by author A.M. Homes as “near-genius” and called “one of the most anticipated debut novels in years” by The New York Times Magazine. Bock earned a Master's of Fine Arts in fiction and literature from Bennington College and has received fellowships from Yaddo, UCross, and the Vermont Studio Center. He has taught fiction at the Gotham Writers Workshop in New York City and his short fiction has been published in Esquire Magazine.
Peter Trachtenberg is the author of 7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh and The Book of Calamities: Five Questions about the Meaning of Suffering, which will be published by Little, Brown in August 2008. In 2007, he won the prestigious Whiting Award for emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise. Trachtenberg’s essays and short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and Bomb, and his commentaries have aired on NPR's “All Things Considered.” He has also performed his monologues at Dixon Place, PS 122, and The Kitchen. He received the Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction and the Jerome Lowell DeJur Award for Fiction from the City College of New York. He has taught at Brown University, The New School, Johns Hopkins, NYU, the School of Visual Arts, and City College of New York. He lives in Red Hook, with his wife, Mary Gaitskill.
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
www.behindthebook.org
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Victoria Redel, Dani Shapiro, and Darcey Steinke
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John Haskell and Joshua Ferris
April 12 , 2007
Natalie Danford, Adam Rapp, and Anthony Tognazzini
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Jennifer
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Myla Goldberg and
Rick Moody
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Elizabeth
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Tussing
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Ben Marcus
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Angie Cruz,
Nelly Rosario and Sheila Maldonado
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Jonathan
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2006
Sam
Lipsyte and Christine Schutt
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2006
Nick McDonell and Ned Vizzini
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Marcy Dermansky and Hannah Tinti
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A. M. Homes and Adam Rapp
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