Fiction: Philipp Meyer, Deborah Copaken Kogan & Robert Goolrick

March 29, 2009
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Philipp Meyer’s writing has been published in McSweeney’s, The Iowa Review, Salon.com, and New Stories from the South. From 2005 to 2008 Meyer was a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas. He splits his time between Texas and upstate. He reads from his novel: American Rust

“Mr. Meyer’s instinctive storytelling powers and his ability to create characters who evolve from familiar types into flesh-and-blood human beings. “American Rust” announces the arrival of a gifted new writer — a writer who understands how place and personality and circumstance can converge to create the perfect storm of tragedy” – Michiko Kakutani
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Robert Goolrick lives in New York City. He s the author of the memoir The End of the World as We Know It. He reads from his novel: A Reliable Wife
“Barbed and canny, with a sharp eye for the infliction of pain,” The New York Times
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Deborah Copaken Koagan is the author of Shutterbabe, the bestselling memoir of her years as a war photographer. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, The New York Times, Paris Match, Newsweek, Time and other publications. She lives in New York and she reads from her novel: Between Here and April
“A bold, haunting, honest, and original journey into the darker, unchronicled terrains of motherhood.” Katie Roiphe
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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,