KGB Bar

Sweta Srivastava Vikram a graduate of Columbia University, is a multi-genre writer and marketing professional living in New York City. She is the author of two upcoming chapbooks of poetry: Kaleidoscope: An Asian Journey of Colors and Because all is not lost: Verse on Grief and co-author of a forthcoming poetry collection titled Whispering Woes of Ganges & Zambezi. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications across the U.S., U.K., Canada, India, New Zealand, and Philippines. Sweta has held recent artist residencies in Portugal, Ireland, and the U.S., and worked on collaborative projects with artists from Zimbabwe and Australia.

Chris Tarry is a Canadian musician and fiction writer living in Brooklyn. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The G.W. Review, PANK, Cell Stories, Paradigm Journal, Opium Magazine, Northville Review, Drunken Boat, Defenestration, Metazen, and others. He makes his living playing bass in New York City, where he’s also hard at work on his first novel, The Wedding King of Vermont. He’s a three-time Juno Award winner (Canada’s top music prize), and has been nominated for the award nine times. 

SUSAN SHAPIRO is the author of Speed Shrinking (out in paperback July 21, 2010), her hilarious fictional debut that became an international phenomenon. She has been featured on The Today Show, The Early Show, CNN, LX-TV, Oxygen, E Entertainment, The New York Times, Elle, Glamour, Oprah.com, Salon.com and People.  Her other books include Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Lighting Up, and Only as Good as Your Word.  She lives with her husband, a TV/film writer, in Greenwich Village where she teaches her popular “instant gratification takes too long” writing classes at the New School and NYU. 

KATE ROCKLAND is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Style section and has also written for Playboy, Rolling Stone, Us Weekly, Time Out New York, Spin and the Newark Star-Ledger.  She worked for two years at Rolling Stone, where she followed around freakishly beautiful celebrities with a microphone and was also an assistant editor at Wenner Books.  After a stint in the East Village, she now lives in Hoboken, NJ, with a ridiculously large CD collection.

MELISSA MALAMUT has worked in PR for the NHL and the PGA of America. She was Editor-in-Chief of Touchdown Illustrated magazine and a researcher for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN Books. She held a weekly sports beat for Tribune newspapers while simultaneously working as a beauty editor for an upstart fashion magazine. Malamut has been writing sports, beauty, fashion and lifestyle pieces for 10 years. 

Mark O’Donnell
Rich Orloff
Thaddeus Rutkowski
Greg Sanders

Mary Robinette Kowal
Laura Anne Gilman

Aaron Michael Morales was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, and is a graduate of Purdue University’s MFA program. He has taught Creative Writing, Latin American Literature, Multi-Cultural Literature, Contemporary Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition at a number of colleges, including Columbia College of Chicago, Richard J. Daley College, Robert Morris College, and Purdue University. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of English at Indiana State University where he teaches Creative Writing and Contemporary Literature. His fiction has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Passages North, and MAKE Magazine, among other places. His first short collection of fiction, titled From Here You Can Almost See the End of the Desert, was published in 2008 by Momotombo Press at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies. He has authored one novel, Drowning Tucson, and is currently at work on his second, Eat Your Children.

InDigest 1207 was started to further the mission of InDigest Magazine (indigestmag.com): to create a dialogue about the arts, through the arts. By having authors speak to or read from another author who has influenced them--positively or negatively--we hope to show that the process of writing (and reading) is not done in a vacuum, but is an interactive process. Authors have previously brought in e-mails, text messages, song lyrics, paintings, and student writing, as well as poetry and prose by other great authors. 

Brian Trimboli recently graduated from NYU’s MFA program, where he received a fellowship to assist with the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Writers Workshop. He has poems forthcoming in The Indiana Review, Third Coast, LIT, and Forklift, Ohio.

Florencia Varela completed her MFA in poetry at Columbia University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as Drunken Boat, DIAGRAM, Gulf Coast, Western Humanities Review, and Washington Square Review. She currently lives in Brooklyn.

Eric Kocher is working on his MFA at the University of Houston, where he also will be teaching literature and creative writing. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, DIAGRAM, H_ngm_n, Rattle, Sixth Finch, and Washington Square Review.

Geoffrey Nutter was born in San Francisco and attended San Francisco State University and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. His previous books include Water’s Leaves and Other Poems (Winner of the 2004 Verse Press Prize) and A Summer Evening, winner of the 2001 Colorado Prize. He lives in New York City with his wife, daughter and son. His latest book of poetry is Christopher Sunset.

Sarah Dragonfly Brown came to writing by way of the theater. After training in high school to be an actress she ran away to Chicago with an underground troupe that wrote all their own plays. When she wanted better female roles, they advised her to write her own play and they’d do it. Five full-length plays and one feature film later, Sarah finds herself writing creative nonfiction in NYC. She is currently working on a memoir calledWack-a-doodle Woman, a story about finding dementia care for her free-spirited mom.

Caitlin Leffel is a writer, editor, and co-author of The Best Things to Do in New York: 1001 Ideas (2006) and NYC: An Owner’s Manual (2008). This year she officially became a bicoastal writer with the publication of Flair, a guide to effortless and elegant entertaining, which she wrote with Los Angeles interior designer Joe Nye. She has written for Blackbook, Time Out New York, Fashion Week Daily, and Mademoiselle, and holds the dubious distinction of being the last intern at that magazine before it folded. She’s a founding member of the online literary happy hour “Five on Friday,” and is a very recent graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing program.

Crystal Mandler has recently returned to New York after braving four Chicago winters.  She is at work on her first novel, Shelterbelt, the story of a half-Sioux girl desperate to escape her puritanical mother and the isolation of her remote farm in northeastern Montana, where Crystal was partly raised.  Crystal is a 2010 graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing program.  She is a computer geek by day, though she’s also been a baker, a blueberry-raker, a statistical analyst, a social anthropologist, a caterer, an editor, and a teacher.

Readers will include:

Carolyn Silveira, who currently works at the Freelancers Union in Brooklyn. She studied literature and creative writing at the University of Chicago and has worked in publishing and public radio. She is an Associate Editor of Anderbo.com, where her short story “How James Franco Became My Boyfriend” is at
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afiction-050.html

Adam Gallari, who is currently working on a novel and pursuing a PhD at the University of Exeter in England. Originally from New York, he holds an MFA from the University of California, Riverside, and his essays and fiction have appeared in The Quarterly Conversation, The Millions, therumpus, and LIT. His debut collection We Are Never as Beautiful as We Are Now was published by Ampersand Books in April. His short story “Chasing Adonis” is at
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afiction-031.html

Anna Lisa McClelland, who has written and performed in comedy shows and plays in London and New York. She wrote the adaptation for The New York Times best-selling writer Nuala O’Faolain’s “My Dream of You”, and her own one-woman show “Anonymous” has been produced at Theater for the New City in Manhattan’s East Village and at various comedy theaters in the US. Her novel-manuscript excerpt, “My Accidental AA Meeting” is at
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/andexcerpt5.html

& maybe a poet or three…

Barrelhouse, the Washington, DC-based literary magazine, will present selected readings from its latest issue, which focuses on office life. While it might sound like a boring topic, in the hands of Barrelhouse’s authors, office life becomes, by turns, frightening, confusing, and oddly inspiring.

The reading will include work by the following writers.

Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz is the author of five books of poetry including the recently released Everything is Everything. She is the founder of the three-time National Poetry Slam Championship venue, NYC-Urbana and recently authored Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam.

Kilean Kennedy grew up in Kentucky and now lives in Boston. His stories have appeared in such fine places as The Louisville Review, The Mississippi Review Online, Word Riot, Hobart (web), and The Wrong Tree Review. (Kilean’s story will be read by Barrelhouse editor Joe Killiany.)

Rebekah Sankey holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence college where she served as the director of the Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival.

Melissa Yancy’s fiction has appeared in One Story, At Length, Crab Creek Review, Two Letters, and other publications. She is a graduate of the Masters of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California, and currently resides in Los Angeles. (Melissa’s story will be read by actor Sam Falbo.)

With performances by Claire S. Henry, Niketta Scott, and Elizabeth Delvin!  Hosted by Liliana Velásquez.

Deborah Schupack—Deb is the author of the novels Sylvan Street and The Boy on the Bus. She lives in the Hudson Valley.

Jana Martin - Jana is the author of Russian Lover and Other Stories. She has published stories in Five Points, Turnstile, Cosmopolitan, Spork and the Misssissippi Review. Glimmer Train gave her its “best new writer award.” She lives in the Catskills

Marta Szabo—Marta has published a memoir: The Guru Looked Good. She is co-director of the Authentic Writing Workshop in Woodstock, New York.

Eric Weinstein’s poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets 2009, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, and Third Coast. He is an MFA candidate at New York University.

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Adam Eaglin’s poetry and book reviews have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Words Without Borders, Cave Wall, and Harvard Review. He studied as an Elizabeth Leonard Fellow at Boston University, where he received an MFA in poetry, and was a Robert Pinsky Global Fellow in Spain.

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

Catherynne M. Valente, author of over a dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan’s Tales series, and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Own Making. She is the winner of the Tiptree Award, the Mythopoeic Award, the Andre Norton Award, the Rhysling Award, and the Million Writers Award. She is a finalist for the Hugo Award this year. Over the next year she has three novels and a short story collection coming out, as well as short stories in Welcome to Bordertown, Haunted Legends, and the YA vampire anthology Teeth. She’ll be reading from her upcoming novel Deathless.

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M.K. Hobson, the author of over thirty short stories, which have been published or are forthcoming in magazines and anthologies such as SCI FICTION, Realms of Fantasy, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Postscripts, Interzone, Digital Domains, Haunted Legends, and Polyphony.  Her debut novel, The Native Star will be out from Bantam Spectra in September, to be followed by a sequel in the summer 2011.  She is one of the co-hosts of Podcastle and is a regular reader for Fantasy Magazine’s podcast series.

Books will be for sale by Bluestockings.

Pamela August Russell is the author of B is for Bad Poetry out now from Sterling Publishing. The Los Angeles Times says “It may not be Walt Whitman, but Miss Russell’s verses are often a whole lot funnier.” Her short stories and poetry have appeared in several anthologies including Virgin Territory and most recently Nothing Moments. She lives in Los Angeles near the freeway.

Jennifer L. Knox’s new book, The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway, is forthcoming in Fall 2010 from Bloof Books. Her other books, Drunk by Noon and A Gringo Like Me, are also available through Bloof. Jennifer was born in Lancaster, California—home to Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and the Space Shuttle. She has taught poetry writing at Hunter College and New York University. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares and many others.

Melissa Broder is the author of WHEN YOU SAY ONE THING BUT MEAN YOUR MOTHER (Ampersand Books, February 2010). She is the chief editor of La Petite Zine and curates the Polestar Poetry Series. By day, she is a publicity manager at Penguin. Her poems appear, or are forthcoming, in many journals, including: Opium, Shampoo, PANK, Five Dials, The Del Sol Review, Word for/Word, Miracle Monocle and Swink. She lives in Brooklyn.

Max Sharam is a resident of both New York City and Sydney, Australia. Her illustrated prose book Snakes Live Under My Bed has sold out pretty much everywhere. Max is also a wildly gifted singer. Her debut solo album A Million Year Girl rocketed to the top of the Australian charts. Her one-woman performance pieces have been part of Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Hong Kong Fringe Festival and New York Arts Festival. She also has the same bra size as Sharon Stone.

Patrick Costigan is the author of two plays for the San Fransisco Shakespeare Festival introducing young audiences to the enjoyment of Shakespeare without any financial remuneration for himself. His new book of poems THIS with photographs by Heather Hitt will be out as very soon. He lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Our host for the evening will be entertainer and professional storyteller, Dale Seever who invites you to enjoy, some things he enjoys on his regular radio broadcast, brought to you from a third floor walk-up on the foul banks of the Gowanus. (Otherwise known as James Bewley)

Bar closed to the public.

WELCOME TO A DRAMATIC LITERARY READING featuring selections from the first (EVER) all women’s anthology of tragicomic fiction. The St Petersburg Seven present innovative and insightful dramatic fiction dealing with pain and passion, love and life’s epiphanies and momentous moments, tropisms and tremors, relationships and revelations. Each author masterfully plays with comedy and tragedy showing us how these forms date, engage, and no-nup marry.

Mona Awad, was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. She is a writer of short stories, poems, screenplays in addition to having worked extensively as a journalist. Mona’s fiction and articles have appeared in a variety of publications, among them: The Walrus, Utne Reader, Maisonneuve, Magazine, McSweeney’s, Tidings, onAir and Matrix where she was the winner and recipient of the Matrix/SLS Editors’ Choice Award for Fiction in 2009. Mona is currently finishing her MScR in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Much of Mona’s work focuses on the seismic psychosexual, and the tragicomic details, twists and turns that occur in personal, social and family encounters and relationships.

Naveen Bahar Choudhury, playwright and fiction writer, was born in Washington, D.C. and now lives in NYC. Her plays have been produced and developed by venues such as Ensemble Studio Theatre, Second Stage Theatre, The Lark Play Development Center, The New Federal Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Source, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and Desipina & Co. Naveen was a finalist for The Public Theater’s 2008 Time Warner Emerging Writers Group. As an active participant in the South Asian American theatre community, a member of SALAAM Theatre, and alumna member of Desipina & Co., Naveen’s work explores female anti-heroes, and the lives of 21st Century American immigrants and their descendants from a tragicomic perspective. Naveen received her MFA in playwriting from the Actors Studio Drama School & is a member of The Dramatists Guild.

Jackie Delamatre, born in Louisiana, is an educator at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Guggenheim Museum. Jackie has taught fiction writing for ,Brooklyn’s Sackett Street Writers Workshop, and New York University from which she holds an MFA in the same subject. Jackie’s work relies on her observations of friends and relatives. She focuses on details of neuroses and expands from there to make as many assessments of the world as she can glean from such a small sample size. Jackie pays as much close attention to plot as she can muster and far more to her characters’ insides. Jackie has been published in New York Press and CapGun, among other publications.

Christina Nichol spent most of her twenties studying animal husbandry in the former Soviet Republics. Retiring from her life as a Kyrgyz yak herder, she now lives in Florida where she is getting her MFA in creative writing and studying how to herd alligators. Christina has worked on documentary projects and has just completed a tragicomic novel set in the Republic of Georgia. It has been described as containing “crystalline descriptions of the everyday life in Georgia.” Christina’s highly original work is full of dark humor, and has been called “impressively fluid,” with the ability to evoke the totally absurd.

Faye Ran, born in Havana, Cuba, is a professor of literature, media and cultural studies, a writer/director, & art curator of a small NYC SoHo gallery. Faye, a former Fulbright Theatre Scholar, AFI Screenwriting Fellow and winner of the Goodman Award for Playwriting, has in hyphenated capacities as a producer/writer/ director produced over 100 plays, films, videos, and multimedia productions on Off-Off Broadway and at international theatre & art festivals and curated over 175 art exhibitions. Her book, The Tragi-comic Passion, is a history & analysis of tragicomedy & tragicomic characterization in drama, film and literature. Both Faye’s creative and academic work reflect an interest in new genres, experimental narrative and hybridity of form. Faye has two PhDs (Columbia University in English & Comparative Literature & NYU in Media Ecology- Culture & Communication) 7 Masters, and an MBA (like Yentl but without the singing).

Rebecca Schiff, a native New Yorker, lives and teaches in Brooklyn. Sam Lipsyte has described her work as “quick, funny, heartbreaking and mean, usually all at once.” Rebecca holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University, where she received a Henfield Award and a Berg Fellowship. Her writing has appeared in n+1, Fence, Guernica and in the anthology Lost and Found: Stories from New York. She is currently an adjunct instructor of English at Kingsborough Community College. Rebecca spends a lot of time thinking about the sentence, both when writing fiction and when grading student work. Her work is both achingly poignant and funny at the same time.

Izida Zorde is a Russian-born writer, curator, and the editor of FUSE magazine — an arts and culture magazine based in Toronto. Working for the past ten years as an editor and curator in the visual arts, Izida’s critical work explores politically engaged arts practices, neo-liberal economics and participatory democratic models. As a fiction writer, Izida’s strikingly original series of stories tell the tragicomic history and struggles of a family that immigrates from Russia to Winnipeg ten years before the fall of Soviet Communism and on the dime of United Jewish Appeal (PROUD TO ASK! PROUD TO GIVE!). Izida received her Masters in Sociology from the University of Toronto and studied translation at Moscow State University.

Jaffe Cohen is an award-winning standup comic (Funny Gay Males), screenwriter ("Hit and Runway") and novelist (Tush) but he’s most proud of his ability to make complete strangers laugh by sticking out his bottom teeth and making a face like his dog. 

Jessica DuLong is the author of My River Chronicles: Rediscovering the Work that Built America, A Personal and Historical Journey,winner of the 2010 ASJA Outstanding Book Award for memoir. In the book, which melds memoir, history, and reportage, DuLong recounts her transition from building websites to running the five 600-hp diesels aboard retired NYC fireboat John J. Harvey, using her story as a vehicle for tracing the country’s movement away from hands-on work toward an increasingly more virtual, screen-focused society. A mechanic’s daughter and Stanford graduate who bridges blue-collar and white-collar worlds, DuLong is one of the world’s few female fireboat engineers, and a journalist whose work has appeared in a diversity of publications, from Rolling Stone to Today’s Machining World. www.myriverchronicles.com www.fireboat.org

PENolan is the name Tricia began using when her ex-husband demanded a clause in their divorce decree requiring her to write under a pseudonym all because of a story she read at Drunken! Careening! Writers! As part of the research for her memoir, Tricia has been using her blog, Menopausal Stoners, to determine what an individual can say on the internet about a recognizable person and still avoid prosecution. She is currently working on The Menopausal Stoners Guide to Parenting, and really truly intends to start submitting stories somewhere in the very near future.

Shawn Stewart Ruff is the author of two novels---Finlaterand the just-released Toss and Whirl and Pass---and a devoted short-story writer. He is also the editor of Go the Way Your Blood Beats: Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by African American Writers. He lives and works in New York City.

LAUNCH PARTY FOR TUNE IN TOKYO: THE GAIJIN DIARIES by TIM ANDERSON
An evening of elegant smut and smoove grooves, with a reading by the author, plus a story by Kristen Elde (BUST, The Nervous Breakdown), music from Edmund II, and maybe some pie?

Visit the Tune in Tokyo website at www.tuningintokyo.com.

Tim Anderson has done many amazing things in his short life. Well, two amazing things. OK, one thing that he did twice. But he’s got nothing on his older brother, who can play his teeth like a xylophone with his thumb.  Tim has made a name for himself writing for small publications that hit the stands, cause a splash, and then die die die, among them Raleigh, NC’s Spectator, The Hatchet, Brightleaf: A Southern Review of Books, and Lather Weekly. He has also been a contributing writer to Seattle’s Resonance, which amazingly is still alive. He graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill and was inducted into both Phi Beta Kappa and the Golden Key National Honor Society. These distinctions have yet to pay off.  Tim is an editor in New York. He blogs at seetimblog.blogspot.com.

Kristen Elde has been published in magazines such as BUST, Health, Runner’s World, Running Times, Shape, The Writer, and Writer’s Digest, in addition to Web publications that include McSweeneys, The Nervous Breakdown, The Northville Review, Pindeldyboz, and Word Riot. She’s also the keeper of The Sublet Blog (www.subletblog.blogspot.com), where she compiles stories of disgruntled subletters and sublessees. Kristen proudly calls Brooklyn home and is currently obsessed with jalapeno poppers.

Through his underground prowess of the past 12 years, Edmund II has been spotted sharing stages with Guided by Voices, Ted Leo, Matt Pond, the Frogs, and the Lemonheads.  Starting his music career in the midwest, Edmund II relocated and commenced “rocking out” in the infamous North Carolina scene.  While truly beginning to develop a specialized approach to his own music he’s sat in and collaborated with bands such as the Rosebuds (Merge Records), Bowerbirds, and Megafaun.  Relocating once again, this time in Brooklyn, Edmund II took a substantial writing sabbatical in the fall of ‘09 before recording his first proper solo record “Floating Monk.” Conceptually in the works for roughly 3 years, the record is due to be released in the fall of ‘10.  With influences such as Luiz Bonfa, Nick Drake, Tortoise, Shellac, and Sigur Ros, Edmund II has begun to artfully balance the complexities of these ingredients on “Floating Monk”. It’s delicate, it’s rich, it moves with intent.  It’s tasteful, it’s flavorful, and beautifully dark.

Daniel Young —Daniel, a recent MFA graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, has published stories in a number of magazines, large and small.

Michael Hearst -- Michael has published stories in McSweeney’s, Parenthetical Note, Hotel St. George and other pubs. He is a founding member of the band One Ring Zero. During a recent solo performance in Bryant Park, he played an instrument without touching it.

Alex Samets— Alex, a newly minted MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, has published her work on-line and in hardcopy. She lives in Inwood and frequents The Flying Pig Bookstore, when in the vicinity of Shelburne, Vt.

Elizabeth Marie Young received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at U.C. Berkeley. Her first full-length book of poetry, Aim Straight at the Fountain and Press Vaporize, was released by Fence Books in 2009. She currently a professor at Wellesley College.

Christie Ann Reynolds is a native New Yorker and has an MFA in Poetry from The New School. Her chapbook idiot heart was chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy for the 2008 New School Chapbook contest. She is the coauthor of a chapbook forthcoming from The Corresponding Society Press and another titled, Revenge Suite is forthcoming with Supermachine Editions. Her work can be found in BlazeVox, La Petite Zine, So and So, EOAGH, The Houston Literary Review, Pax American, Sink Review and others. She teaches at Hofstra University.

Ben Mirov lives in Brooklyn, New York. He has poems in, or forth-coming from Fou, Opium Magazine, Forklift Ohio, The Best American Poetry Blog, Washington Square, Saltgrass and The Agriculture Reader. His chapbook I is to Vorticism won the Diagram/New Michigan Press 2009 chapbook contest. He is editor of pax americana. He is also poetry editor of LIT Magazine. Sometimes he blogs at isaghost.blogspot.com.

InDigest 1207 was started to further the mission of InDigest Magazine (indigestmag.com): to create a dialogue about the arts, through the arts. By having authors speak to or read from another author who has influenced them--positively or negatively--we hope to show that the process of writing (and reading) is not done in a vacuum, but is an interactive process. Authors have previously brought in e-mails, text messages, song lyrics, paintings, and student writing, as well as poetry and prose by other great authors. 

Moscow-born and Bronx-raised, Stacy Gueraseva is the author of Def Jam, Inc.(Random House 2005) about the history of Def Jam Records. She has been writing about music and pop culture for national magazines since 1995. Fun fact: She’s an identical twin.

Rena Silverman is a freelance writer and non-fiction author. A native of New York, Ms. Silverman is the ghostwriter behind dozens of articles, speeches, and online content. In 2007 she was featured in Marie Claire magazine’s “I Can’t Get Through July Without My…” Specializing in fine art photography, Silverman is a regular contributor to the New York Art Beat and Examiner.com. She lives on the Upper West Side with her typewriter.

Jason Brown is the author of the story collections Driving the Heart and Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work.

Anna Godbersen is the author of the young adult series, The Luxe, which consists of the titles: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, and Splendor. The first title of a new series, Bright Young Things, will be released in October.

Malerie Willens’ first published story appeared in Open City 26 and Best American Nonrequired Reading. She lives in Brooklyn.

Christopher Bram is the author of nine novels, including GODS AND MONSTERS, which was made into the movie starring Ian McKellen and Lynn Redgrave. A collection of his essays, MAPPING THE TERRITORY, was published last year. He is currently working on a history of gay men’s literature, EMINENT OUTLAWS: THE GAY WRITERS WHO CHANGED AMERICA.

Jenifer Levin is the author of novels Water Dancer, Snow, Shimoni’s Lover, and The Sea of Light, and short story collection Love and Death, and Other Disasters.  Her essays appear in Wanting a Child, A Love Like No Other, Cookin’ With Honey and other anthologies, and she has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and Forward, to name a few.  A Pen-Hemingway Award and Lambda Literary Award nominee, she is the recipient of multiple Hopwood Awards for both fiction and nonfiction.  She taught at the University of Michigan and The Writer’s Voice (NYC), and is proud of the fact that several of her students have gone on to publish novels of their own.

Bob Smith has appeared on “The Tonight Show” and had his own HBO special. His first book Openly Bob won the Lambda Literary Award for Humor. His first novel Selfish and Perverse was one of three nominees for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction.

Elizabeth Whitney is a writer/performer.  You may have seen her in SHOWGASM at Ars Nova, The Bulldyke Chronicles at Dixon Place, and The Famous Lesbian Comedy Road Show at Stonewall. You should definitely see her on the Brooklyn Pride stage and in TOSOS’ upcoming production of THE SECRETARIES in the 2010 NYC Fringe! She was nominated for Best Actress at the 2009 Dublin Gay Theatre Festival; “Best Performance” at the New York City Fresh Fruit Festival; “Best Solo Performance” at the Columbus National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild, The Famous Lesbian Comedy Road Show, and The Femme Show. She is currently developing a new solo show about her hometown of Tallahassee, Florida. www.elizabethwhitney.com

Drunken! Careening! Writers! is a reading series based on the proposition that readings should be by 1) good writers; 2) who read their work well; and 3) something in it makes people laugh (nervous laughter counts). And 15 minutes tops.

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

Jack Ketchum, the author of four story collections (one with Edward Lee), many novellas and thirteen novels, four of which have been filmed to date—The Lost, Red, The Girl Next Door and Offspring.  He is the four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award for his fiction and Stephen King has called him “the scariest guy in America.” His latest mass-market release is the novel Joyride, backed with the novella Weed Species.

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Scott Edelman, whose short stories have been published in a wide range of anthologies and magazines including The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic, Forbidden Planets, and Postscripts. Some of them have been collected in These Words Are Haunted and in What Will Come After, the latter a complete collection of his zombie fiction, just published by PS Publishing. He’s been a Stoker Award finalist five times. Additionally, Edelman currently works for the Syfy Channel as the Editor of SCI FI Wire and was founding editor of Science Fiction Age, which he edited during its entire eight-year run. He has been nominated for the Best Editor Hugo four times.

Glen David Gold is the author of the best-selling novel Carter Beats the Devil, which was translated into 14 languages, and named a book of the year by Entertainment Weekly, The LA Times, Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post.  He has written memoir, essays, short stories and journalism for The New York Times Magazine, McSweeney’s, Playboy, Black Clock, Tin House and the Independent UK.  After toiling as a screenwriter for many years, he turned to writing graphic novels for DC (The Spirit) and Dark Horse (the Escapist).  His essays on the comic book artist Jack Kirby have appeared in many journals, as well as in support of the ground-breaking exhibition Masters of American Comics.  His most recent novel, Sunnyside, is also an international best-seller.  Currently, Gold is writing the libretto for an opera, Erdnase, with Gavin Bryars, composer.

On Sunnyside:

“A breathless stupendous novel that recreates both a young brash America on the verge of becoming itself, and Chaplin, one of its most bewitching quixotic citizens. From lighthouse to Hollywood to starlets to war to stardom to madness to genius Gold’s startling narrative carries us across the world and back. Gold proves himself yet again to be the hungriest craftiest funniest and most humane novelist we have.”-- Junot Díaz

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.

P Moss is author of Blue Vegas, a collection of short fiction which explores the clash between the old and new Las Vegas, and the quest for scraps of love and dignity amid the ruins of the lives of has-been showgirls, desperate killers and degenerate gamblers.  He studied journalism at the Universality of Minnesota and worked as a screenwriter in Los Angeles.  His fiction has appeared in Circle Magazine, Opium Magazine, Prose Toad and Unlikely Stories.  His short story Time Machine is featured in the science fiction anthology Doom Town: Tales Of Near-Future Las Vegas, due to be released this fall by the University of Nevada Press.  He currently lives in Las Vegas.
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Emily St. John Mandel was born on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada, in 1979. She studied dance at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre and lived briefly in Montreal before relocating to New York. She lives in Brooklyn.
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Patty Nasey moved to New York from California in 1989 to intern for SPY magazine. In the early ’90, she chronicled her adventures in pop culture – including a “dream date” with ‘70s teen idol David Cassidy, a brief stint as a home-shopping hostess for QVC and her weekend at the O’Hare Hilton attending an Elvis impersonator convention – for Paper Magazine.  She has since worked for a variety of publications including New York, Mademoiselle, Time Out New York, Jane, Teen Vogue, Lucky and WWD.  Patty lives on the upper west side with her husband, two daughters and a dog.

David Goodwillie is the author of the novel American Subversive, which The New York Times calls “a hip and quick-paced literary thriller [about] what motivates radicalism” that “excels at jet-black social satire in a style reminiscent of Bret Easton Ellis.” His debut book, the memoir Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, earned him a “Best New Writers of 2006″ honor from the literacy association, PEN American Center.  David is a regular contributor to The Daily Beast, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous magazines, journals, and web sites, including New York, The New York Times, The New York Post, and The Rumpus.  He has also played professional baseball, worked as a private investigator, and been an expert at Sotheby’s auction house.  He lives in New York City.

Aryn Kyle is the author of the newly published short story collection Boys and Girls Like You and Me.  Her debut novel, The God of Animals, was an international bestseller and the winner of an American Library Association’s Alex Award, a PNBA Award, an MPIBA Award, and others.  The God of Animals was named by Amazon as the Number One Fiction Debut of 2007, and was chosen as a Book Sense Pick and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers title.  Aryn’s short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, Best American Short Stories 2007, Best New American Voices 2005, and elsewhere.  She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Award and a National Magazine Award in fiction.  She lives in New York City.

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Behind the Book is a literacy nonprofit working with low-income students in NYC public schools.  Our mission is to excite children and young adults about reading.  Working in the 1st -12th grades, we bring authors and their books into individual classrooms to build literacy skills and a new generation of book readers.  www.behindthebook.org

Doug Holder is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press. His poetry and prose have appeared in Rattle, Long Island Quarterly, Endicott Review, Main St. Rag and others.  Doug is the author of many books and chapbooks.  He teaches writing at Bunker HillCommunity College in Boston, and EndicottCollege in Beverly, Mass. He holds an M.A. in Lit. from HarvardUniversity.

Paul Steven Stone’s writings have appeared in a boatload of newspapers and magazines. His comic masterpiece, Or So It Seems has been called “A rollicking spiritual page-turner!” His story collection, How To Train a Rock, was culled from 25 years of genre- and mind-bending columns. Stone lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and works as Director of Advertising for W.B. Mason.

Andrey Gritsman is a poet, essayist and translator, born in Russia.  He writes in two languages. His works have appeared in multiple magazines and anthologies. Andrey is the author of several collections and recipient of an honorable mention in the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and his current book of poems Live Landscape has just been released by Cervena Barva Press. 

Steve Glines is the founder and Editor of Wilderness House Press and WHLReview. He is the author of Seven Days in Fiji a literary travelogue and the poetry chapbook Opuscula (Cervena Barva Press).  His works have appeared in Ibbetson Street Press, four Bagel Bard Anthologies and elsewhere.  Steve is also editor-in-chief at ISCS Press. 

Host:  Susan Tepper

Courtney Elizabeth Mauk’s work has appeared in The Literary Review, Forge Journal, PANK, Word Riot, Joyland, and the anthology Gravity Fiction, which has been named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award for independently published books. Two of her short stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She received her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University and teaches writing at College of Staten Island.

Linus Urgo is the Books Review editor for KGB’s online literary magazine.  He lives in Brooklyn.  Tonight he will be reading a short story.

Last Sunday Night Fiction reading till September.

Mary literary magazine is published quarterly. Our mission is to showcase Queer/Gay writings of artistic merit.

“Mary” is seeking to capture and examine queer moments; to offer a surfeit of gay writings of artistic value and give them the showcase they deserve. Mary’s goal is to highlight writings that strive to reveal a perfect homosexual moment without any rationalization other than to skillfully reflect: this is the gay world or this is the gay world as we imagine it to be.

In Mary there might be political and social commentary, and maybe an indoctrinating manifesto or two; but none of these things will come before a beautiful phrase or a lyrical stanza that lay bare the lives of the seemingly disparate communities of queers, sissies, activists, “straight-acting”/appearing men who have sex with men, daddies, punks, tops, cubs, pigs, bangee queens, twinks, romantics and head cases. Mary is dedicated to gay writing that is not simply art for art’s sake, but art as a demonstration of life.

Colin Fitzpatrick reads a lot of blogs and has allegedly read the entire Internet. As well as contributing to Mary, he edits web sites for PBS and New York public television and writes a gay humor blog at socialcrisis.net.

Gee Henry is the pen name of a New York-based writer and singer.  Originally from Antigua, Henry now lives in Manhattan, where he works in publishing and blogs about his outfits (and his feelings) on www.geehenry.com.

Daniel Lee: is a New York City-based poet, artist and blogger. His writing has been published in various print and online publications. Read his blog at www.danielextra.net

Contributors from Mary read from new work. Check them out www.maryliterary.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.

Featuring:

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Elizabeth Ellen
Kim Chinquee
Peter Schwartz
Christopher Kennedy
Robert Lopez
Barry Graham

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Karen Baddely
Steve Rosenstein
Marie Barrientos
G.D. Peters
Paul Hylan Segar

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Ken Sparling
Geoffrey Nutter
Jen Michalski
Mark Mirsky
Shya Scanlon

Author Bios:

Karen Baddeley is working on her MFA in Creative Writing at the City College of New York and is an assistant at the Ayesha Pande Literary Agency.

Marie Barrientos is a current undergraduate at The City College of New York. She’s an actor and secretary in a law firm, not necessarily in that order.  Her first published piece appears on Hot Type: Fiction on the Web.

G.D. Peters’ short stories have appeared in Folio, South Dakota Review, Sulphur River Literary Review, and more than a half dozen other literary magazines and journals. In 2009 he received his MFA from The City College of New York, where he currently teaches literature and creative writing.

Steve Rosenstein’s work has appeared in such journals as the Monmouth Review, the Aquarian, and Smyles & Fish, and has had theater works staged by the Terranova Collective, where he is a member.  He is the managing editor of Fiction, and teaches as an adjunct lecturer at The City College of New York.

Born and raised in New York, Paul Hylän Segar is a former attendee of the Fashion Institute of Technology and the City College of New York. Currently residing in Harlem, he is a celebrity stylist and designer.

Elizabeth Ellen is the author of Before You She Was a Pit Bull (Future Tense) and Sixteen Miles Outside of Phoenix (Rose Metal Press). She lives in Ann Arbor and is editor of Short Flight/Long Drive Books, a division of Hobart.

Kim Chinquee is the author of the collections, Oh Baby, and Pretty. She received a Pushcart Prize and lives in Buffalo, New York.

Peter Schwartz’s poetry has been featured in The Collagist, The Columbia Review, Diagram, and Opium Magazine. His latest collection is Old Men, Girls, and Monsters and he’s a regular contributor to The Nervous Breakdown. He lives in Maine.

Christopher Kennedy is the author of Nietzsche’s Horse, Trouble with the Machine, and Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death. He is an associate professor of English at Syracuse University where he directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing.
 
Robert Lopez is the author of two novels, Part of the World and Kamby Bolongo Mean River. Dzanc Books will publish a story collection, Asunder, in November. He teaches at The New School, Pratt Institute and Columbia University.
 
Barry Graham is the author of The National Virginity Pledge and Not a Speck of Light is Showing. He teaches writing at Rutgers University and edits for DOGZPLOT. 

Ken Sparling is the author of the recently reissued, Hush Up and Listen Stinky Poo Butt (Artistically Declined Press) and the critically acclaimed Dad Said He Saw You At The Mall (Knopf, 1996).

Mark Mirsky edits Fiction, has published four novels, a collection of stories and novellas, The Secret Table, and two academic books and is the Professsor of English at The City College New York.

Geoffrey Nutter is the author of A Summer Evening, Water’s Leaves and Other Poems and Christopher Street. He teaches at New York University and will teach next year at the Iowa Writers Workshop.

Jen Michalski’s first collection of stories, Close Encounters (2007) was published by So New Media and her second is forthcoming from Dzanc Books.

Shya Scanlon’s poetry collection, In This Alone Impulse, was published by Noemi Press in January 2010. His novel, Forecast, will be published later this year by Flatmancrooked.

Join your hosts Larry Ratso Sloman and Mark Jacobson for another mega edition of NY’s only live radio show. Guests will include the ever great Beehive Queen, Christine Olhman; Simon and Schuster grand poobah David Rosenthal on the future of the written word; Kurt Thometz; the always amusing Carla Rhodes with Cecil the dummy; Joanna Ebenstein from the Observatory talking about Morbid Anatomy; band “Dog Soldier”; plus the usual suspects (more Danny C, the conspirator!) along with eating and drinking.

Zachary German
Leigh Stein
Becca Klaver

Leigh Stein is the author of the chapbooks How to Mend a Broken Heart with Vengeance (Dancing Girl Press) and Least Inhabited Island II (h-ngm-n Combatives). She has been nominated for Best New Poets, Best of the Web, and a Pushcart, and is the recipient of an Amy Award from Poets & Writers. In Brooklyn, she curates the Poets & Puppets reading series, and teaches drama to over 130 children each week.

InDigest 1207 was started to further the mission of InDigest Magazine (indigestmag.com): to create a dialogue about the arts, through the arts. By having authors speak to or read from another author who has influenced them--positively or negatively--we hope to show that the process of writing (and reading) is not done in a vacuum, but is an interactive process. Authors have previously brought in e-mails, text messages, song lyrics, paintings, and student writing, as well as poetry and prose by other great authors. 

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.

Els Quaegebeur is a Dutch journalist and writer. She writes a weekly column about her life in New York City for a national newspaper in the Netherlands. A book based on these stories will be published in August (only in Dutch at first, but who knows where the Frankfurter Buchmesse will take it). Her first novel Mijn Geheim (My Secret), published in 2006, was translated into Italian. That makes sense as the story revolves around adultery, Italy’s number one hobby. She is currently working on a screenplay version of My Secret and on her second novel, and loves the idea of readers asking bookstore clerks if they know “My Secret.”

Kathy Z. Price is the author of the award-winning picture book, The Bourbon Street Musicians, which received a starred review from American Library Association’s Booklist, a Notable Book Award, a New York Times Book Review and inclusion in Best Children’s Books of the Year, 2003 by Bank Street College. She is also a recipient of a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. Her poetry is included in Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poet’s Café. She’s a performance poet who has performed at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, St Marks Poetry Project, The Whitney Museum as well as performances in Central America and Europe. She is the guest editor of A Gathering of the Tribes # 11 noted by Toni Morrison as a “beautiful issue.”

Hosted by June Clark, Instructor, New York Writers Workshop

Participants include:

Celeste Miller has been teaching for the New York City public school system for seven years, after a long and successful career in the financial technology industry.  After completing the New York City Teaching Fellows program, Celeste taught art for three years to 5 to 12 year olds with autism, developmental delays and emotional handicaps at a small school in East Harlem. She then joined the staff of the Professional Performing Arts School (PPAS) in Manhattan as a Learning Specialist, where she has developed, and continues to run, the PPAS Learning Center and its tutoring program. Celeste’s work has appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teacher Tales and the Cardinal Points Literary Journal. Her latest work, a memoir, is called Teacher Clothes.

Heidi David’s nineteen years producing TV commercials was bound to have some sort of deteriorating effect on her brain. It did, in the form of an as yet unpublished novel.  Taking inspiration from pop surrealism, musical theater, and a lifetime of insomnia, The Flying Jewel tells the tale of a traveling circus where the line between what is entertainment and what is depravity grows thin (think David Lynch meets Glinda-the-Good-Witch). When she’s not writing or freelancing, Heidi lives a gluten-free existence in her Manhattan apartment while pining for the bagels of her youth.

Robert Manni drew on his career at New York’s top creative ad agencies to write his most recent novel, The Guys’ Guy’s Guide to Love. He holds a BA in English Literature from Villanova University and an MBA in Marketing. He is also a Reiki Master/teacher, certified advanced clinical hypnotist, marathoner, world traveler, devotee of New York City, and somehow survived twenty years of single life in Manhattan.

Jean Verthein is a runner up in Gival Press poetry contest, coordinator of Northern Manhattan reading series, and had two stays at the Ragdale Foundation. She has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and been involved in study tours of Italy, Afghanistan and Iran.

Sarah Dragonfly Brown considers herself a Transformational Adventurer. Inspired by her training as an actress at North Carolina School of the Arts, Interlochen Arts Academy, and Chicago’s Theater Oobleck, Sarah Dragonfly Brown holds a degree in Playwrighting from Hampshire College.  As Playwright-in-Residence for Theaterwork of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Sarah was commissioned to work with psychiatric survivors to write “Spirit Club: Stories of Mental Discomfort and Healing,” and “Lovebird Jamboree: Love Stories from the Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender Community.” Her stage-play, “Bermuda Triangles: The Non-Monogamy Experiment,” first produced by Theater Rhinoceros of San Francisco, was later made into the film, “Mango Kiss,” distributed by Wolfe Video 2004.  She currently lives in New York City, where she is working on a memoir entitled, Wack-a-Doodle Woman, a story about finding dementia care for her eccentric mom. 

Mark Goldblatt is a political columnist, novelist, essayist and book reviewer who teaches at Fashion Institute of Technology of the State University of New York. His work has appeared in The New York Post, The New York Times, USA Today, The Daily News, Newsday, National Review, The America Spectator, The Common Review, Philosophy Now and the webzine Ducts. His first novel, Africa Speaks, was published by Permanent Press in 2002. His second novel, Sloth, has just been published by Greenpoint Press.

Teddy Wayne is a graduate of Harvard and the Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis , where he also taught fiction and creative nonfiction writing. The recipient of a 2010 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship based on an excerpt from Kapitoil, his fiction, satire, and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Time, Vanity Fair, Esquire, McSweeney’s, the Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. He grew up and lives in New York. www.teddywayne.com. He reads from his novel Kapitoil

“… [A] strong and heartfelt debut novel… Wayne zips through a minefield of potential clichés and comes out unscathed, striking a balance of humor and keen insight that propels the story through Karim’s education about the West’s ethics and its capitalism, while in the background the World Trade Center looms. It’s a slick first novel that beautifully captures a time that, in retrospect, seems tragically naïve.” Publishers Weekly
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Jonathan Woods resides in Dallas, Texas. His noir crime stories and other writings have appeared in 3:AM Magazine, Dogmatika, Plots with Guns, Thuglit, Pulp Pusher, Noir Originals and others. Visit his website at www.southernnoir.com. He reads from his collection: Bad Juju & Other Tales of Madness and Mayhem
“Just as you settle into the stories and predict you have a feel for how they will proceed, Wood hits you between the eyes with a stunning twist or completely unexpected turn. His ability to switch genres in the space of one story after another is astonishing.” Ken Bruen
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Josh Weil - The New Valley won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. Weil has been named a National Book Award “5 Under 35” author, a Fulbright scholar, and was a Jersey Fellow at Columbia University. His fiction has appeared in Granta, StoryQuarterly, New England Review among others. He divides his time between New York City and Southwestern Virginia. He reads from his book: The New Valley

“Gripping . . .Meticulous . . .Full of tenderness and looming menace.” The New York Times Book Review

Fiction Director: Suzanne Dotting
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.

Andrea Alton is a New York based, actor/writer/comedian. She recently finished a commercial run of Carl & Shelly, Best Friends Forever (co-writer/actor with Allen Warnock) which originally premiered at the 2008 NY Fringe Festival. Other favorite theatre credits include The Chiselers and Labor Day Weekend (Emerging Artists Theatre), The Strangest Kind of Romance (Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival), Big Girl, Little World (NY Fringe Festival) and Reckless, She Stoops to Conquer (Kaleidoscope Theatre Company). Andrea performs characters and sketch through out the city and most recently took part in the Miss Fag Pageant at Comix as Miss Park Slope which was a benefit for the Harvey Milk School. www.andreaalton.com.

Allen Warnock’s theatre credits include: The Skin of Our Teeth, A Servant of Two Masters, and WASP (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Off-White Christmas (Manhattan Theatre Source) and Zen and the Art of Doing Nothing (Center Stage, Midtown Int. Theatre Fest ‘08).  Allen co-wrote and appeared in Carl & Shelly, Best Friends Forever which premiered at the ‘08 NY Fringe Fest and later received a commercial run at Theatre 3 this past February.  Film credits: Morning Glory(with Harrison Ford and Diane Keaton, upcoming) and The Wedding Bros. (with Dan Fogler). www.myspace.com/allenwarren.

Anne Elliott’s stories have appeared in Hobart, Pindeldyboz, Opium, FRiGG, 3:AM, and other indie litmags, including the late, great WV.  She hails from the Pacific Northwest, and resides now in Brooklyn, where her hobbies include gardening and feral cat management.  She has an MFA in visual / performance art from UC San Diego. http://assbackwords.blogspot.com/

Jacob M. Appel’s short fiction has appeared in more than 120 leading literary journals. His prose has won the Boston Review Short Fiction Competition, the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award for the Short Story, the Dana Award, the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction, the North American Review’s Kurt Vonnegut Prize, and many others. Jacob’s stage plays have been performed in New York City, regionally and abroad. Jacob has taught most recently at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and at the Gotham Writers’ Workshop in New York City. Jacob holds a B.A. and an M.A. from Brown, an M.A. and an M.Phil. from Columbia, an M.D. from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, an M.F.A. from N.Y.U. and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.  He also publishes in the field of bioethics He currently practices medicine at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. www.jacobmappel.com

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel

present:

Terence Taylor, an award-winning children’s television writer whose work has appeared on PBS, Nickelodeon, and Disney. After a career of comforting kids, he’s now equally devoted to scaring their parents. His short horror stories have been published in all three “Dark Dreams” horror/suspense anthologies. BITE MARKS was his first novel and BLOOD PRESSURE, just out from St. Martin’s, is the second in the opening trilogy of the Vampire Testaments.

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Leanna Renee Hieber is a actress and playwright who has adapted several works of 19th Century literature for the stage, and her one-act plays have been produced around the country. Her novella Dark Nest won the 2009 Prism Award for excellence in the genres of Futuristic, Fantasy and/or Paranormal Romance.  Her debut novel, The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker (which made the Barnes & Noble Bestseller List)is the first of a quartet of gothic Victorian fantasy novels published by Dorchester. The second book in the series, The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker was recently released.

Books will be for sale by Bluestockings

Please join us for two readings on the subject of eating in uncomfortable places, or (with a nod to the Talking Heads) Dinner During Wartime:

In the fall of 2003, Annia Ciezadlo spent her honeymoon in Baghdad. She moved to Beirut with her brand-new husband and not much else, and spent the next six years in Beirut and Baghdad, cooking and eating with Shiites and Sunnis, refugees and warlords, matriarchs and mullahs. In her upcoming memoir DAY OF HONEY, Ciezadlo brings a broad historical, political, and cultural perspective to the everyday human struggle to obtain and prepare food during wartime.

Since graduating from Deep Springs College, Nathan Deuel has written and edited for magazines (Rolling Stone, The Atlantic Monthly), newspapers (The Village Voice, The National), and websites (NPR.org, SixBillion.org). In the summer of 2007, he packed a bag and walked from New York to New Orleans, a trek that took five months, three pairs of shoes, and a couple thousand miles. These days, he lives in Saudi Arabia with his wife, Kelly McEvers, who covers the region for National Public Radio. He blogs for True/Slant.

**Please note!  This will be the last True Story event of the season, before we take our summer hiatus!  Come join us for one last evening under the hammer and sickle til autumn!**

Matthew Lippman’s first book, The New Year of Yellow, won the Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize and is published by Sarabande Books.  His second book, The Monkey Bars, will be published in 2010 by Typecast Press.  He currently lives in the Boston area and teaches high school students at Beaver Country Day School.

Susan Wheeler is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Assorted Poems from Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and a novel, Record Palace. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she teaches at Princeton University.

Note: Last series reading of the season

Steve Stern, winner of the National Jewish Book Award, is the author of several previous novels and novellas. he teaches at Skidmore College. He reads from his novel: The Frozen Rabbi
“Steve Stern is far and away the greatest of our unrecognized writers.” - Gordon Lish
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David Goodwillie is the author of the memoir SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME (Algonquin), for which he was named one of the “Best New Writers of 2006” by a PEN American Center forum. He has written for national magazines, newspapers and websites including New York, Men’s Health, Black Book, The New York Post, The Newark Star-ledger, The Rumpus and Deadspin. He has also played professional baseball, worked as a private investigator, and been an expert at Sotheby’s auction house. A graduate of Kenyon College, he lives and works in New York City reads from his novel American Subversive
“A new voice has entered the city--youthful, wise, and with an enthralling story to tell. Goodwillie’s rendering of an American woman seduced by radicalism skillfully examines the enduring themes of our lives: politics, media, loyalty and love.”- Gay Talese

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.

Feile-Festa continues to explore the richness of the cultural heritage of the Irish and Italians, whether rooted in the diasporas to America or a genealogical return to the source of their inspiration on the other side of the Atlantic.  Our broader vision includes other Mediterranean and Celtic cultures, so it should come as no surprise to see poetry with a Greek or Scottish accent or contributors who were born in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, or Palestine.  Our contributors also come as far away as Alaska and represent every major region of the United States.  We also continue to highlight writing and artwork set in New York City.  In this issue you will find photos connected to Italian American and Jewish American heritage in Lower Manhattan, especially the Lower East Side.

Readers will include:

Gil Fagiani’s poetry collections include: Rooks (Rain Mountain Press, 2007), Grandpa’s Wine (Poets Wear Prada, 2008), A Blanquito in El Barrio (Rain Mountain Press, 2009), Chianti in Connecticut (Bordighera Press, 2010) and Serfs of Psychiatry (Finishing Line Press, pending 2010).

Maria Lisella’s Pushcart Poetry prize-nominated work appears in Amore on Hope Street from Finishing Line Press and Two Naked Feet, published by Poets Wear Prada.  Her short story,“Sunday in Palermo,” will appear in the forthcoming anthology, More Sweet Lemons, to be published by Legas Press. She is on the board of the Italian American Writers Association and Co-coordinates IAWA’s Reading Series at Cornelia St. Cafe.

Frank Polizzi’s poems and stories have appeared in The Archer, City Legacy, Electric Acorn, Mudfish, Paterson Literary Review, Wired Art and others. He is the Editor of Feile-Festa, a multicultural literary journal, both print and online, published by Paradiso-Parthas Press and is currently working on a second novel.

NYU-SCPS Programs in Writing and Speech Present NYU MEETS UNY: AN EVENING WITH UNDERWATER NEW YORK

featuring

ELIZABETH GAFFNEY
ROBERT LOPEZ
NICKI POMBIER BERGER

and

REBECCA RESNICK

Underwater New York (underwaternewyork.com) is an online anthology of stories, art, and music inspired by the underwater objects and phenomena that surround New York City.

In the latest event presented by NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies and literary venue KGB Bar, four writers will read from their contributions to the site:

ELIZABETH GAFFNEY’s first novel, Metropolis, a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, was published by Random House in 2005. Elizabeth has been a resident artist at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Blue Mountain Center. She also serves as the editor at large of the literary magazine A Public Space. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the neurologist Alex Boro, and her two daughters.

ROBERT LOPEZ is the author of two novels, Part of the World and Kamby Bolongo Mean River. A collection of his short fiction, Asunder, will be published by Dzanc Books in November, 2010.

NICKI POMBIER BERGER is the Founding Editor of Underwater New York and a member of the Advisory Board for 3 Generations, a non-profit organization that supports survivors of genocide and crimes against humanity by helping them share their stories. Nicki lives in Brooklyn and writes at the interdisciplinary gallery Proteus Gowanus.

REBECCA RESNICK’s story “Weight” was chosen as a finalist in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers.  She is a writer and television producer, directing and producing shows for the Travel Channel, HBO, and Animal Planet. When not on the road documenting Outrageous Animals or places to Pig Out, Rebecca enjoys documenting the even stranger oddities found under the rivers of New York City. “This Is What Happens When You Stick Your Neck Out” is Rebecca’s first piece for Underwater New York.

For tonight’s show, we have the famous Lach, the originator of the anti-hoot who will be playing his own songs and then showcasing two or three up and coming anti-hoot artists.  Also the hot dynamic rock n roll comic ventriloquist Carla Rhodes. And the acclaimed owner of the only Montreal style smoked meat deli in NY, Noah Bernamoff, who will bring samples and discuss the lost art of NY delis, and conspiracy roundup from Dan the Man.

Plus Sean Avery of the New York Rangers!