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Our Reading Series is on Summer Schedule and takes place most Tuesdays at 7:00pm. Starting in September, readings will take place every Thursday at 7:00pm.

Past readers have included Andre Aciman, , Marty Beckerman, Thomas Beller, Beth Bosworth, David Gates, Paul Greenberg, A.M. Homes, Chuck Klosterman, Lawrence Krauser, David Rees, Nelly Reiffler, Darin Strauss, Dennis Nurske, Hal Sirowitz, Amy Sohn, Zoe Tropen, Lara Vapnyar.


 
Tue 07/27

NED VIZZINI hosts a reading with PETER HYMAN (author of The Reluctant Metrosexual: Dispatches from an Almost Hip Life) ELISE MILLER (author of Star Craving Mad) ISABELLE DUKE (editor of "Mirror Mirror: Reflections on the Way We Look") MARK DECKER,
Readers will come armed with questions about their work--answer them right and get a free drink...
 
 
 

7:00 pm
Tue 08/10

NED VIZZINI hosts our Reading Series. World Travelers... (from Boston, curator of the Dire Literary Series and author of Short Street and Twenty-Six Pack), ANDREW K. STONE (from DC, author of All Flowers Die and Disappearing Into View), LIAM GERAGHTY (from Ireland, columnist for the Kildare Nationalist and contributor to Mongrel)  
Readers will come armed with questions about their work--answer them right and get a free prize...
 

7:00 pm
Tue 08/10

World Travelers...
TIMOTHY GAGER curates the Dire Literary Series and is the author of "Short Street" and "Twenty-Six Pack", collections of short fiction. He has written for Word Riot and runs www.timothygager.com.
From DC: ANDREW K. STONE is the author of "All Flowers Die" and "Disappearing Into View". His website is www.sotherebooks.com.
From Ireland: LIAM GERAGHTY writes the weekly "Trains, Buses and Automobiles" column for the Kildare Nationalist. He is the proprietor of www.liamgeraghty.com.

Tue 08/17 Clay Mcleod Chapman, of Pumpkin Pie Fame, hosts a reading.
Tue 08/24

NED VIZZINI with RACHEL KRAMER BUSSELL (editor of Up All Night: Adventures in Lesbian Sex), ALEXIA J. LEWNES (author of Misplaced: New York City's Street Kids, writer and editor for the United Nations Children's Fund), DAVE FABRICANT (Yale graduate and professional maze-drawer)  
Readers will come armed with questions about their work--answer them right and get a free prize...
 

7:00 pm
Thu 09/02

MICHAEL WEINREB, CHRIS HAMPTON and NED VIZZINI
MICHAEL WEINREB is the author of Girl Boy Etc. "Breakups, pickups and the ups and downs of postadolescent single guys form the backbone of Weinreb's sharp, funny debut collection."--PW
CHRIS HAMPTON blogs at uffish.com and curates the WYSIWYG Talent Show, a monthly reading series in Manhattan featuring all bloggers all the time.
NED VIZZINI is the author of "Be More Chill."
"Anatomizes high school lust and social scheming without any condescending reassurance. If it weren't so funny, his first novel might be too painful to read.?--NYTBR

7:00 pm
Thu 09/09

Yongsoo Park, author of "Las Cucarachas" and "Boy Genius" and Todd Colby, author of "Tremble & Shine" and "Riot in the Charm Factory"
 

7:00 pm
Thu 09/23 Lydia Millet, author of "Omnivores," "George Bush, Dark Prince of Love," "My Happy Life," and the forthcoming "Everyone's Pretty" and "Oh Pure and Radiant Heart" and Tim McLoughlin, editor of "Brooklyn Noir," and author of "Heart of the Old Country" 7:00 pm


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