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Paul Beatty is the author of the novels Slumberland (his latest), Tuff, and The White Boy Shuffle, as well as the poetry collections Joker Joker Deuce and Big Bank Take Little Bank, and the editor of Hokum, an anthology of African-American humor.
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Kevin Coval is author of Everyday People (EM Press, 2008) and Slingshots (a hip-hop poetica) (EM Press, 2006), which was nominated for a Book of the Year Award by The American Library Association. Poems and critical essays have appeared in The Spoken Word Revolution and The Spoken Word Revolution: Redux (Source Books), Total Chaos (Basic Civitas) I Speak of the City: New York City Poems (Columbia University Press), The Chicago Tribune, Crab Orchard Review, and can be heard regularly on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and National Public Radio in Chicago. Coval is a faculty member at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, poet-in-residence at The Jane Addams Hull House-Museum and Minister of Hip-Hop Poetics at The University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Adam Mansbach is the author of The End of the Jews. His previous novel, the critically-acclaimed bestseller Angry Black White Boy, or The Miscegenation of Macon Detornay. A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2005. He is an inaugural recipient of the Future Aesthetics Artist Regrant (FAAR), funded by the Ford Foundation. His other books include the novel Shackling Water the poetry collection genius b-boy cynics getting weeded in the garden of delights and the anthology A Fictional History of the United States With Huge Chunks Missing, which he co-edited with T Cooper.

Praise for The End of the Jews “Exquisite.... Original in the way it explores the creative interchange between blacks and Jews and the give-and-take dynamic of artistic partnership. Mansbach’s characters are sharply drawn… the creative partnerships among artists are suggestively and beautifully portrayed.” —New York Times Book Review

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,