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Behind the Book Reading Series

Join us on Thursday, November 13 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm at KGB Bar, when Behind the Book hosts another evening of free readings by exceptional writers: Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum and Karan Mahajan.

WHAT: The Behind the Book Reading Series

WHEN: Thursday, November 13 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm -- FREE

WHERE: KGB Bar, 85 East Fourth Street
(between Second & Third Aves.; take the F/V to Second Ave. or the 6 to Astor Place).

CONTACT: info@behindthebook.org or http://www.kgbbar.com/

WHO:
Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum is the author of two collections of short fiction. This Life She’s Chosen was named a Barnes and Noble: Discover Great New Writers selection for the year. Her second collection, Swimming With Strangers, was published by Chronicle Books in October of 2008. With Jacqueline Kolosov, she is also editor of the anthology The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Contemporary Writers on Forerunners in Fiction. Kirsten’s short fiction has appeared in One Story, The American Scholar, and Willow Springs, among other journals. She has been the recipient of a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and is a Pushcart Prize nominee. In the fall of 2008, she will join the creative writing faculty at Purchase College (SUNY). She lives with her husband, photographer Nathan Lunstrum, and their young son.

Karan Mahajan is the author of Family Planning, which has recently been published by Harper Collins. He graduated from Stanford University with a degree in English and economics and is the recipient of a Joseph Henry Jackson Award, an award offered annually to promising young California writers. He has contributed writing to The Believer, the San Francisco Chronicle, Granta and the New York Sun. He currently lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

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:

October 9, 2008
Judy Blundell, Maureen Johnson, Siobhan Vivian and Coe Booth

July 10, 2008
Sarah Schulman and Rivka Galchen

June 12, 2008
Melissa Walker, Carolyn Mackler, Bennett Madison, and Michael Northrop

May 8, 2008
Kelly McMasters and Abigail Thomas

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