Jonathan Corcoran launches his debut story collection with Tayari Jones.
Jonathan Corcoran
Tayari Jones
Greenlight Bookstore
Monday, April 11, 2016
7:30 p.m.
“These stories are particularly poignant for anyone who grew up gay in America’s desolate places, but Corcoran speaks eloquently to all facets of the human condition.”
—Kirkus Review
JONATHAN CORCORAN
Jonathan Corcoran grew up in rural West Virginia inspiring the stories of the collection. He was a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Award in short fiction and semi-finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award.
TAYARI JONES
Tayari Jones is the author of The Silver Sparrow, The Untelling, and Leaving Atlanta and teaches creative writing at Rutgers University – Newark.
Kate Gavino
Jazmine Hughes
Julia Fierro
Alexander Chee
Mira Jacob
Lev Grossman
Housing Works
Tuesday, October 27
7 p.m.
KATE GAVINO
Gavino has attended more than 400 readings and drawn even more authors.
KGB Bar
Saturday, October 3
7 p.m.
J.MAE BARIZO
Author of The Cumulus Effect, her work has appeared in AGNI, Bookforum, Boston Review, Hyperallergic and Los Angeles Review of Books.
LAUREL BLOSSOM
Author of Longevity, Blossom is the Poet Laureate of Edgefield, South Carolina, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming from Heliotrope, Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art, Per Contra, New York Quarterly, Frigg and Tupelo Quarterly 2.
PATRICK RYAN FRANK
Author of The Opposite of People, he is a Fulbright Fellow.
REBECCA OKRENT
Her collection Boys of My Youth recaptures the reverence of childhood.
JONATHAN WELLS
The title poem of his collection, The Man with Many Pens, appeared in The New Yorker. His work has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The New Yorker, Poetry International, and other journals.
KGB Bar
Friday August 14, 2015
7 p.m.
MORGAN PARKER
Parker co-curates the Poets with Attitude reading series and is the author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night.
See photos of Morgan Parker reading at Franklin Park Reading Series in January on English Kills Review’s Tumblr.
TOMMY PICO
Pico is the founder of birdsong, a small press and zine and co-curator of Poets with Attitude.
See Photos of Tommy Pico reading at Mental Marginalia in August 2014 on English Kills Review’s Tumblr.
LYNN MELNICK
Melnick is the co-editor of Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation, and the author of If I Should Say I Have Hope.
ANGEL NAFIS
Nafis is the curator of the Greenlight Bookstore Poetry Salon series and author of BlackGirl Mansion.
See photos from when Nafis read at Franklin Park Reading Series in June on English Kills Review’s Tumblr.
BookCourt
Wednesday, August 5,
7 p.m.
REBECCA DINERSTEIN
Dinerstein is the author of a collection of poems, Lofoten, written in English and Norwegian. She holds an MFA from NYU. The Sunlit Night is her debut novel about a young girl in an internship above the Arctic Circle and a baker who comes to bury his father.
Read about the launch of The Sunlit Night on English Kills Review
REVIEWS of The Sunlit Night
Publisher’s Weekly
Kirkus Review
Huffpost Arts and Culture
JULIA PIERPONT
Julia Pierpont’s debut novel Among the Ten Thousand Things follows the story of a family torn apart by a bitter mistress.
Read about the launch of Among the Ten Thousand Things on English Kills Review
REVIEWS of Among the Ten Thousand Things
Huffington Post
NYTimes
Entertainment Weekly
Publisher’s Weekly