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Behind the Book Reading Series

Join us on Thursday, March 13 from 7:00 to 9:00 at KGB Bar , when Behind the Book hosts another evening of free readings by exceptional writers: Lydia Millet and Abha Dawesar.

WHAT: The Behind the Book Reading Series

WHEN: Thursday, March 13, 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:

Lydia Millet is the acclaimed author of six novels, including My Happy Life, which won the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction and Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, which was short-listed for the 2007 Arthur C. Clarke Award. Jonathan Lethem has called her one of his favorite writers. In a starred review of her latest novel, How the Dead Dream, Publisher’s Weekly writes "Millet proves no less lyrical, haunting or deliciously absurd in her brilliant sixth novel than in her fifth...an involving character study and a stunning meditation on loss--planetary and otherwise--Millet's latest unfolds like a beautiful, disturbing dream."

Abha Dawesar is the author of three novels. Her second novel, Babyji, won the 2006 American Library Association's Stonewall Book Award and the 2005 Lambda Literary Award. Her most recent novel, That Summer in Paris, follows an aging writer whose involvement with a young woman forces him to face the eternal question of love. Author Bharati Mukherjee describes the novel as “elegant and contemplative.” Ms. Dawesar is also a winner of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fiction Fellowship.

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:

February 14, 2008
Charles Bock and Peter Trachtenberg

January 10, 2008
Helen Benedict, Felicia Luna Lemus, Karen Russell

December 13, 2007
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