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Mark Goldblatt has written hundreds of political columns for a combination of the NY Times, NY Post, USA Today, Daily News, Newsday, National Review, the American Spectator and the Advocate, as well as book reviews for Commentary, Reason, the Claremont Review, Ducts Webzine and the Common Review. His first novel, Africa Speaks, was published by Permanent Press in 2002, and his new novel, Sloth, was published this summer by Greenpoint Press. He is an associate professor at Fashion Institute of Technology of the State University of New York.
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Eli Shaber is a retired surgeon who is now a poet, traveler, and raconteur.  He lives in Manhattan after spending most of his adult life in San Francisco.  He lives with his three girls.  In addition, he is at the forefront of a new media form known as Spoken-Word Video Poetry.
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Doug Garr has been a speechwriter, journalist, author and ghostwriter, and this evening he is going to read from his most personal book which Greenpoint published last year.  Skydiving literature has been pretty much confined to James Drought’s 1955 novel, “The Gypsy Moths.” Doug Garr’s skydiving memoir, “Between Heaven and Earth,” is – finally—a worthy successor.  A self-described parachuting slut – he’d do anything for a free jump—Garr started leaping in 1969, when the sport was barely out of its infancy and into its toddlerhood. In between, he met most of the legends and legendary reprobates of one of the extreme-est of extreme sports.  He came out of a 25-year retirement in 2008, at age 59, to once again jump out of a perfectly good airplane to finish the last chapter.