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LIC Reading Series: Jason Diamond, Kelly Luce, Sara Majka


Get your love on this February 14th with authors Jason Diamond, Kelly Luce, and Sara Majka.
FREE! Readings – panel discussion – prizes
subway: 7/E/M/G to Court Square

About our readers:

JASON DIAMOND is the sports editor at Rollingstone.com and founder of Vol. 1 Brooklyn. His work has been published by The New York Times, BuzzFeed, Vulture, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Pitchfork, Esquire, Vice and many other outlets. He was born in Cook County, Illinois, but currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife, his two cats and his dog named Max. His memoir Searching for John Hughes was published in 2016 by William Morrow Paperbacks.

KELLY LUCE is the author of Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail, which won Foreword Review’s 2013 Editor’s Choice Prize for Fiction. After graduating from Northwestern University with a degree in cognitive science, Luce moved to Japan, where she lived and worked for three years. She’s a Contributing Editor for Electric Literature and a 2016-17 fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her debut novel, Pull Me Under, was published in 2016 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

SARA MAJKA’s stories have appeared in A Public Space, Brick, Guernica, American Short Fiction, and PEN America. A former fiction fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, she recently moved from Woodside, Queens, to Providence, Rhode Island. Cities I’ve Never Lived In was published in 2016 by Graywolf Press.

Details

Date:
February 14, 2017
Time:
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Cost:
Free
Website:
https://www.facebook.com/events/355126858203665/

Organizer

LIC Reading Series
Email:
Website:
https://www.facebook.com/LICReadingSeries/

Venue

LIC Bar
45-58 Vernon Boulevard
Long Island City
Website:
http://www.licbar.com/