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Luis Alberto Urrea is the author of The Devil’s Highway, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of a Lannan Literary Award, and the incredibly acclaimed The Hummingbird’s Daughter. He is also the recipient of an American Book Award, a Western States Book Award, and the Colorado Book Award, and he has been inducted into the Latino Literary Hall of Fame. He lives in Chicago. He reads from his novel: Into the Beautiful North

Publishers Weekly says of the new book “Urrea’s poetic sensibility and journalistic eye for detail in painting the Mexican landscape and sociological complexities create vivid, memorable scenes...the colorful characters, strong narrative and humor carry this surprisingly uplifting and very human story.”

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Justin Taylor is the editor of The Apocalypse Reader (Thunder’s Mouth) and Come Back, Donald Barthelme (McSweeney’s). His work has been published by numerous magazines, journals, and websites, including Oxford American, The Believer, and The New York Tyrant. A collection of short stories, Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever, will be published by Harper Perennial next year. With the poet Jeremy Schmall, he is co-editor of The Agriculture Reader, an arts annual. He lives in Brooklyn. http://www.justindtaylor.net/

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,