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Join us for an evening with Lars Iyer, Emily St. John Mandel and ned Beauman.
Also, come for the raffle! Four tickets to Broadway show SEMINAR

LARS IYER is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is the author of two books on Blanchot (Blanchot’s Communism: Art, Philosophy, Politics and Blanchot’s Vigilance: Phenomenology, Literature, Ethics) and the novel Spurious, which was 3:AM Magazine’s Book of the Year in 2011. He writes at his blog Spurious, and is also a contributor to Britain’s leading literary blog, Ready, Steady, Book. His literary manifesto, “Nude in Your Hot Tub, Facing the Abyss” appeared in Post Road and The White Review. Dogma , which The Millions called one of the “most anticipated books of the year.” 3:AM Magazine just called it “The Best Novel of 2011” and was the runner-up in The Guardian’s Not-the-Booker Prize. He reads from his novel: Dogma
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Emily St. John Mandel was born on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada. Her third novel, The Lola Quartet, is forthcoming in 2012 from Unbridled Books in the United States and McArthur & Company in Canada. Her previous novels are Last Night in Montreal (a June 2009 Indie Next pick and a finalist for ForeWord Magazine’s 2009 Book of the Year) and The Singer’s Gun (winner of an Indie Bookseller’s Choice Award, #1 Indie Next pick for May 2010, long-listed for both The Morning News’ 2011 Tournament of Books and the 2011 Spinetingler Awards.) She is a staff writer for The Millions. She has an essay in the recent anthology The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of the Book (Soft Skull, 2011), and her short fiction will appear in Venice Noir, an anthology forthcoming from Akashic Books in 2012. She is married and lives in Brooklyn.
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Ned Beauman is 26 years old, born in London, and is currently living in New York. Ned’s debut novel Boxer, Beetle was published in the UK last year by Sceptre and shortlisted for the Guardian first book award and the Desmond Elliott prize. He is now working on a second novel The Teleportation Accident. He has also written for the Guardian, the Financial Times, Dazed & Confused, AnOther, AnOther Man, Frieze, Fact, Icon and the Literary Review. He reads from his novel, Boxer, Beetle
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Fiction Curator Suzanne Dottino/contact: suzanne@kgbbar.com
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We will be raffling off four tickets to the Broadway show SEMINAR!!!
Sunday Fiction Curator Suzanne Dottino Contact: Suzanne@KGBBAR.COM

About the Series: KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction

The KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction showcases the finest in contemporary fiction from new and emerging writers.

Suzanne Dottino/fiction curator,