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Christine Schutt is the author of a short-story collection, Nightwork, chosen by poet John Ashbery as the best book of 1996 for the Times Literary Supplement. Her first Novel, Florida, was a National Book Award Finalist for fiction in 2004. She is also the author of the story collection A Night, A Day, Another Night, Summer. She’ll be reading from her novel:
All Souls

“Shot through with [Virginia] Woolf’s lyrical, restless spirit… A bold, sharp story about teenage girls, class and illness, about those moments when we achieve the miracle of human connection—and those when we don’t. The New York Times Book Review
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Joan Silber’s most recent fiction is the novel, The Size of the World (Norton, 2008).  Her short story collection, Ideas of Heaven (Norton, 2004), was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Story Prize, and she is the author of four other works of fiction, including Household Words, winner of the Hemingway Award.  Her stories have appeared in The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, The Story Behind the Story, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007 and 2003, and two Pushcart Prize collections, as well as The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and other magazines.  Silber has received an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, and the New York Foundation on the Arts.  She lives in New York City and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. She’ll be reading from The Size of the World
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Kate Walbert is the author of Where She Went, The Gardens of Kyoto, and Our Kind, which was a finalist for the NBA in 2004. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Best American Short Stories, among other publications. She lives in New York City. She’ll be reading from new work.
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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,