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Behind the Book Reading Series

Join us on Thursday, May 8 from 7:00 to 9:00 at KGB Bar , when Behind the Book hosts another evening of free readings by exceptional writers: Kelly McMasters and Abigail Thomas.

WHAT: The Behind the Book Reading Series

WHEN: Thursday, May 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: info@behindthebook.org or www.kgbbar.com

WHO:

Kelly McMasters has been an editor and freelance writer for 10 years. Her memoir, Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town, was published by PublicAffairs in April 2008. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post Magazine, and her profiles and book reviews have been published in Newsday, Metropolis, Elle Décor, CITY Magazine, and Time Out NY. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University and at mediabistro.com. She is also the co-director of the KGB Non-fiction Reading Series in the East Village.

Abigail Thomas, the daughter of renowned science writer Lewis Thomas (The Lives of a Cell, etc.), worked as a book editor and book agent in New York before she published six books. A Three Dog Life, about life after a car accident shattered her husband’s brain, is her fifth book; the most recent, Safekeeping, is also a memoir. She teaches fiction writing in the graduate program at The New School. Ms. Thomas is the mother of four children and the grandmother of twelve. She lives in Woodstock, New York, to be near her husband, Rich.

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:

April 10, 2008
Askold Melnyczuk and Felicia Sullivan

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