KGB Bar

Online literary and culture magazine The Nervous Breakdown features the work of authors and poets from around the world. Tonight’s event, emceed by TNB contributor, T.K. Danovich, will feature the following authors reading from their work.

RACHEL KRAMER BUSSEL, a columnist for SexIs Magazine, has edited over 40 anthologies, including Women in Lust, Obsessed, Passion, Orgasmic, Fast Girls, Bottoms Up, The Mile High Club, Do Not Disturb and the Best Sex Writing series, and has won 6 IPPY (Independent Publisher) Awards. She hosted In The Flesh Reading Series for five years. Her writing has been published in over 100 anthologies, including Susie Bright’s X: The Erotic Treasury and Best American Erotica 2004 and 2006. She has written for The Daily Beast, The Frisky, The Gloss, Lemondrop, Mediabistro, Newsday, Penthouse, The Root, Salon, Time Out New York, The Village Voice, xoJane, Zink and other publications, and teaches erotic writing workshops nationwide. She is a founding editor of the blog Cupcakes Take the Cake.

GREG OLEAR is The Nervous Breakdown’s senior editor and the author of the novels TOTALLY KILLER and FATHERMUCKER, an L.A. Times bestseller.  He teaches creative writing an Manhattanville College.

DIANA SPECHLER is the author of the novels WHO BY FIRE and SKINNY, and has written for the New York Times, GQ, Esquire, Details, O Magazine, Nerve, and elsewhere. She has an MFA degree from the University of Montana and was a Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University.

SHYA SCANLON is the Fiction Reviews Editor for The Nervous Breakdown and the other of the prose poetry book In This Alone Impulse andt he novel Forecast. Scanlon’s work has appeared in the Mississippi Review, Literary Review, New York Quarterly, Guernica Magazine, Opium Magazine, and others. He received his MFA from Brown University, where he was awarded the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction.