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Behind the Book Reading Series

Join us on Thursday, September 10th, 2009 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm at KGB Bar, when Behind the Book hosts another evening of free readings by exceptional writers:Stacey D'Erasmo and Nick Burd.

WHAT: The Behind the Book Reading Series

WHEN: Thursday, September 10th 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:

Stacey D’Erasmo- is the author of three novels. Her first novel, Tea, was selected as a New York Times Notable Book. Her second novel, A Seahorse Year, was named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and Newsday and won both a Lambda Literary Award and a Ferro-Grumley Award. Her latest novel, The Sky Below, was published in January 2009. Ms. D’Erasmo’s articles and podcasts have been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, and The Boston Review. She was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University from 1995-1997, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction in 2009. She is the 2010-11 Sovern/Columbia Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. She lives in New York City and is an Assistant Professor of Writing at Columbia University.

Nick Burd- attended the University of Iowa and received his MFA from The New School. His first novel, The Vast Fields of Ordinary, was published in May 2009 to critical acclaim by The New York Times, Publisher’s Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews, among many others. Mr. Burd lives in Brooklyn, NY and works at the international literary and human rights association, PEN American Center.

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Recent Behind the Book Readings:

June 11, 2009
Caitlin Macy, Arthur Phillips, and Mary Gaitskill

May 14, 2009
Christine Schutt and Ben Greenman

April 9, 2009
Robert Goolrick and Darin Strauss

March 12 , 2009
Deb Olin Unferth and Paul Harding

February 12 , 2009
Daphne Beal and David Ebershoff

January 8, 2009
Hannah Tinti and Allison Amend

November 13 , 2008
Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum and Karan Mahajan

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