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Chiara Barzini’s collection of new short fictions, Sister Stop Breathing (Calamari Press, 2012), has been defined by Gary Shteyngart as “The best thing to come out of Italy since espresso” and Jonathan Ames has defined her stories as “kaleidoscopic arrangements of sentences and situations of freakish originality and beauty.” She is a screen and fiction writer living in Rome. Films written by her have been distributed in Italy, Spain, Japan, and Latin America. The most recent one, Into Paradiso premiered at the 67th edition of the Venice Film Festival. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in NOON, Bomb Magazine, Sleepingfish, The Encyclopedia Project, The New Review of Literature, The NY Tyrant as well as The Village Voice, Rolling Stone Italy, Flair, Italian Vanity Fair, and Marie Claire.
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Robert Lopez is the author of two novels, Part of the World (Calamari Press) and Kamby Bolongo Mean River (Dzanc Books) and a collection of short fiction, Asunder (Dzanc). He has taught at The New School, Pratt Institute, Columbia University, Pine Manor College’s Solstice Low-Res MFA Program and was a 2010 Fellow in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
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Gary Lutz is the author of the short-story collections Stories in the Worst Way (Calamari Press), I Looked Alive (Black Square Editions/The Brooklyn Rail), and Partial List of People to Bleach (Future Tense Books).
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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,