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Harriet Levin Millan, Joseph Legaspi, January O’Neill and Danny Shots

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Adele Kenny
Tom Plante
Susan Tepper
Donna Baier Stein ​

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Over and Through - Writing as Recovery

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Come celebrate the launch of Joseph Fasano’s new book of poetry, The Crossing (Cider Press Review, 2018), with readings by Fasano and special guests.  Books will be available for signing.

Joseph Fasano is the author of three previous books of poetry: Vincent (2015), a book-length poem that Rain Taxi Review hailed as “a major literary achievement”; Inheritance (2014), a James Laughlin Award nominee; and Fugue for Other Hands (2013), which won the Cider Press Review Book Award and was nominated for the Poets’ Prize, “awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior the award year.” Fasano’s poems have appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, The Yale Review, The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, Boston Review, Tin House, FIELD, American Literary Review, and other publications.  He has been featured by the PEN Poetry Series, Verse Daily, and the Academy of American Poets’ poem-a-day program, as well as the anthologies Poem-A-Day: 365 Poems for Any Occasion (Abrams, 2015) and The Aeolian Harp (Glass Lyre Press, 2014).  He teaches at Manhattanville College and Columbia University, where he is the Faculty Advisor for Quarto, the undergraduate creative writing journal.  He is also the curator of The American Poem Series.

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Description: Celebrate the publication of great weather for MEDIA’s latest anthology, Suitcase of Chrysanthemums.

Suitcase of Chrysanthemums is an exhilarating collection of contemporary poetry and fiction from established and emerging writers across the United States and beyond. The anthology also contains an interview with actor and director Sonja Sohn (The Wire, The Chi, Baltimore Rising).

Submissions for great weather for MEDIA’s 2019 next anthology are open October 15th 2018 - January 15th 2019.

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Fantasy and Sci-Fi “The Art of ‘What If?’”

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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.

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Andrew Martin’s stories have appeared in The Paris Review, Zyzzyva, and Tin House’s Flash Fridays series, and his nonfiction has been published by The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, and other publications. Early Work is his first novel.

“The people in Andrew Martin’s Early Work have it all—youth, intelligence, ready wit, readier irony, terminally knowing tastes in books and music, affordable rents, abundant abusable substances, prolific sexual lives, even endearing dogs—and it’s perversely exhilarating to watch them, despite their fits of good-heartedness, turn a bucolic bohemia into a hipster hellscape. This is one smart, funny, scary novel.” —David Gates, author of Jernigan and The Wonders of the Invisible World

“What a debut! Early Work is one of the wittiest, wisest (sometimes silliest, in the best sense) and bravest novels about wrestling with the early stages of life and love, of creative and destructive urges, I’ve read in a while. The angst of the young and reasonably comfortable isn’t always pretty, but Andrew Martin possesses the prose magic to make it hilarious, illuminating, moving.” —Sam Lipsyte, author of The Fun Parts and The Ask

“Beautifully executed and very funny, Early Work is a sharp-eyed, sharp-voiced debut that I didn’t want to put down.” —Julia Pierpont, author of Among the Ten Thousand Things and The Little Book of Feminist Saints

“From a simple boy-meets-girl premise and from the most basic dramatic ingredients—ardor, art, alcohol, anxiety—Andrew Martin has concocted an exceptionally funny and disturbing first novel. I found myself thinking of Goodbye, Columbus and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh—from its title and its opening sentence on, Early Work achieves the feel of a classic debut.” —Chris Bachelder, author of The Throwback Special

Chaya Bhuvaneswar
Chaya Bhuvaneswar studied Indian poetic traditions with the support of an NEH Younger Scholars grant and as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, concentrating in Sanskrit. She has received a Time-Life Writing Award as well as a Yale Elmore Willetts Prize for Fiction. Her short stories have been anthologized in Her Mother’s Ashes 2, and featured on the Other Stories podcast. An Affiliated Fellow in Writing at the Boston University Center for the Study of Asia, she lives in Newton, Massachusetts. She is the winner of the Dzanc Books Prize for her collection of stories, White Dancing Elephants
Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s prose has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Joyland, Tin House, The Millions, Chattahoochee Review and elsewhere. Her debut short story collection WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS received the Dzanc Books Prize and centers on #MeToo stories by diverse women and LGBTQ people of color. She is a practicing physician who grew up in Flushing, Queens.

NYPL Young Lions award-winner Amelia Gray said:
WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS is a searing and complex collection, wholly realized, each piece curled around its own beating heart. Tender and incisive, Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a surgeon on the page; unflinching in her aim, unwavering in her gaze, and absolutely devastating in her prose. This is an astonishing debut.

Jimin Han, author of Little A’s A SMALL REVOLUTION, wrote the following:

“In White Dancing Elephants, Bhuvaneswar’s daring mix of ancient, contemporary, and dystopic stories carries us to the heart of rarely exposed longing, loss, the politics of violence and endurance in remarkable, elegant, heart-stopping prose.

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.

Historical Fiction/non-fiction/poetry

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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.

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Daniel Isengart is a writer, cabaret entertainer and private chef living in Brooklyn. He has written about food and related subjects for Slate and The Huffington Post and is a frequent contributor to Jarry Magazine. Daniel is also the subject of The Autobiography of Daniel J. Isengart, written by his partner Filip Noterdaeme.

The Art of Gay Cooking, a culinary memoir, is a gay adaptation of The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook. Out in June 2018, it has a foreword by celebrity chef Jeremiah Tower, the godfather of California cuisine, and has already received endorsements by prolific authors such as Betty Fussell, Justin Spring, Luke Barr and Rex Reed, among others.

Queering the Kitchen, explores the legacy and influence of gay men and women in America’s culinary world.

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.

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Dawn Raffel’s new book is the The Strange Case of Dr. Couney, a hidden medical history. She is also the author of two story collections, a novel, and a memoir. Her work has been widely anthologized.

Rebecca Entel is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Cornell College, where she teaches multicultural American literature, Caribbean literature, creative writing, and the literature of social justice. Her short stories and essays have been published in such magazines as Guernica, Joyland, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, Cleaver, and The Madison Review. Her first novel, Fingerprints of Previous Owners, was published by Unnamed Press in 2017.

Donna Baier Stein is the author of The Silver Baron’s Wife (PEN/New England Discovery Award, Bronze winner in Foreword Reviews 2017 Book of the Year Award, more), Sympathetic People (Iowa Fiction Award Finalist), Sometimes You Sense the Difference, and the newly released Letting Rain Have Its Say. She was a Founding Editor of Bellevue Literary Review and founded and publishes Tiferet Journal. Her work has been published in Virginia Quarterly Review, Writer’s Digest, Saturday Evening Post, New York Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, and many other journals and anthologies. 
www.donnabaierstein.com

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Lexi Freiman is a fiction editor at George Braziller, a publisher in New York, and a recent Columbia University MFA grad. She was a Center for Fiction Writing Fellow in 2013 and has published in The Literary Review. Before moving to New York, she was an actress with Australia’s national Shakespeare company, where she performed roles such as Celia from As You Like It, Lady Capulet from Romeo and Juliet, and Thaisa from Pericles, all at the Sydney Opera House. She reads from her novel: Inappropriation
“This is a daring book, thrillingly of our moment.” -- Emma Cline, author of The Girls

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.

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Celebrating ladies who were in some way fabulous during their lifetimes.

Instant Killer Wig
Dan Kaplan

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Dan Kaplan is the author of Instant Killer Wig (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018), Bill’s Formal Complaint (The National Poetry Review Press, 2008), and the bilingual chapbook SKIN (Red Hydra Press, 2005). His work has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, VOLT, Denver Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Washington Square, the anthology Flash Fiction Forward (W.W. Norton & Co.), and elsewhere. He is managing editor and poetry co-editor of Burnside Review and Burnside Review Press. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

The Paper Coast

Jefferson Navicky

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Jefferson Navicky was born in Chicago and grew up in Southeastern Ohio. He earned a B.A. from Denison University and an M.F.A. from Naropa University. He is the author of The Book of Transparencies (KERNPUNKT Press) and the chapbooks Uses of a Library (Ravenna Press) and Map of the Second Person (Black Lodge Press). His work has been published in Smokelong Quarterly, apt, Hobart, Tarpaulin Sky, and Fairy Tale Review. He is the archivist at the Maine Women Writers Collection and teaches English at Southern Maine Community College. Jefferson lives in Freeport, Maine.

the hauntRoad

Karen Garthe

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Karen Garthe is author of frayed escort (winner of the 2005 Colorado Prize), The Banjo Clock (University of California Press, 2012) and a chapbook Café between wars (Red Glass Books, 2014). Her poetry and essays appear in numerous print and online journals. She lives in New York City.

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A Flow Reading by 4 poets from Jacar Press, a community-active international press based in NC. Four poets will be interweaving their voices in a continuous presentation.  Any dancers in the audience will be invited to offer improvisations on the poems.  Everyone who wishes to be part of a Poetry Orchestra at the end is encouraged to bring 1 poem as part of that presentation.

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