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Dani Shapiro’s most recent book’s include Black & White , Family History and the best-selling memoir Slow Motion.
Her short stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Elle, Bookforum, Oprah, Ploughshares, among others, and have been broadcast on National Public Radio. She is a contributing editor at Travel + Leisure and guest editor of Best New American Voices 2010.
She reads from her book: Devotion
“Dani Shapiro’s novels and nonfiction are always rich in honesty and intelligence, about the psyche and lost hearts and families, about messes and shame and what calls us to transcend; and how painfully we find out who we are, and how inadequate and stunning the journey is, how it goes both so slowly and in the blink of an eye--how dark and then what (against all odds) so brilliantly lights the way.” Anne Lamott

Geoffrey Becker’s collection Black Elvis won the 2008 Flannery O¹Connor Prize for Fiction. He is the author of two previous books, Dangerous Men, a short story collection that won the Drue Heinz Prize, and Bluestown, a novel. His other awards and honors include an NEA fellowship, selection for The Best American Short Stories anthology, the Nelson Algren Award from the Chicago Tribune, and the Parthenon Prize. He teaches writing at Towson University in Maryland, where he also directs the graduate program in professional writing. He reads from his novel” Hot Springs

“Hot Springs is a road trip layered with desire and mistakes and the impossibility of keeping a secret from rising through the years."‹Ron Carlson, author of The Signal

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,