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Behind the Book Reading Series

Join us on Thursday, April 10 from 7:00 to 9:00 at KGB Bar , when Behind the Book hosts another evening of free readings by exceptional writers: Askold Melnyczuk and Felicia Sullivan.

WHAT: The Behind the Book Reading Series

WHEN: Thursday, April 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:

Askold Melnyczuk is the author of House of Widows, which will appear next year. His novel Ambassador of the Dead was one of The Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2002. His first novel, What Is Told, was a New York Times Notable Book. He has published a novella, Blind Angel, about the life of Rimbaud and has received a Lila Wallace Writer’s Award and the McGinnis Prize in fiction. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Gettysburg Review, The LA Times, Ploughshares, The Antioch Review, and The Nation. Founding editor of Agni, he is currently publisher of Arrowsmith Books. Mr. Melnyczuk has taught at Harvard University and currently teaches at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and in the Bennington Graduate Writing Seminars.

Felicia Sullivan is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work has been published in Swink, Post Road, Mississippi Review, Redivider, Pindeldyboz, Ballyhoo Stories, Publisher’s Weekly, the anthologies, Homewrecker – An Atlas of Illicit Loves (Soft Skull Press, 2005) and in Money Changes Everything (Doubleday, January 2007), among other publications. Recently, an excerpt from her memoir, The Sky Isn’t Visible From Here, was a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2006 collection. She has been awarded fellowships from Tin House magazine & SLS Literary Seminars. She is the founder of the literary journal, Small Spiral Notebook, and is also the co-founder of the Non-Fiction series at KGB Bar in NYC.

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:

March 13, 2008
Lydia Millet and Abha Dawesar

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