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Ben Greenman is an editor at the New Yorker and the author of several acclaimed works of fiction, including Superbad, Superworse, A Circle Is a Balloon and Compass Both, and the groundbreaking funk-rock novel Please Step Back. His fiction, essays, and journalism have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Paris Review, Zoetrope, McSweeeney’s, Opium and elsewhere. He reads from his collection: What He’s Poised To Do
“Ben Greenman’s mind contains, among other things, a literary critic, a cultural commentator, a cowboy, a satirist, a scientist, a surrealist, a nut, a genius, a child prodigy, and a poet.” Susan Minot
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Marisa Matarazzo holds an MFA from the University of California at Irvine, where she was the recipient of the Dorothy and Donald Strauss Endowed Thesis Fellowship. At Yale, she received the Wallace Prize for fiction writing, the Arthur Willis Colton Scholarship, and was a two-time recipient of the Elmore A. Willets Prize for fiction. DRENCHED is her first book. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

“Marisa Matarazzo combines abstractions and firm frameworks with the luscious visceral shape-shifting world of bodies and attraction—put all together, it’s like watching dyed chiffon spill out of an iron lattice. This is a collection that marks its own territory and stamps it out with a textured beauty.” —Aimee Bender, author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

Fiction Director: suzanne dottino 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,