Reading Den

Join us on May 29, 2024 at Fort Greene for the next installment of the Reading Den series.

The event is free to the public and begins at 7pm. Registration is encouraged.

ABOUT THE READERS

Hermione Hoby is the author of the novels Neon in Daylight, a two-time New York Times editors’ choice, and Virtue, which was shortlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature award. Her essays and criticism have appeared in Harper’s, the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Guardian, Bookforum and elsewhere. Raised in south London, she graduated from Cambridge in 2007, subsequently spent ten years in New York, and now lives in Boulder, Colorado. 

Benjamin Kunkel is the bestselling author of Indecision and Utopia or Bust. He is a co-founder of n+1. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books.

Jenny Shank‘s story collection Mixed Company won the George Garrett Fiction prize and the Colorado Book Award in General Fiction, and her novel The Ringer won the High Plains Book Award. Her stories, essays, satire, and book reviews have appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Prairie Schooner, Missouri Review, The McSweeney’s Book of Politics and Musicals and Dear McSweeney’s. Her work has been honorably mentioned by The Best American Essays, the Pushcart Prize anthology, and her mother. She teaches in the Mile High MFA program at Regis University and the Lighthouse Writers Workshop.

Charlee Dyroff has an MFA from Columbia University, and is the author of the debut novel Loneliness & Company. Her work has appeared in Slate, Gulf Coast, Lapham’s Quarterly, Guernica, Ploughshares, Eater, and The Best American Food Writing of 2019. She lives in New York.

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