This month, LIC Reading Series is thrilled to host a special evening on female rage. Come sit by the fireplace and feel a fire ignite inside you as Lilly Dancyger (editor of BURN IT DOWN), Leslie Jamison (MAKE IT SCREAM, MAKE IT BURN), Darcy Lockman (ALL THE RAGE), and Shelly Oria (editor of INDELIBLE IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS) read and participate in a panel discussion!
FREE! Readings and a panel discussion 7/E/M/G to Court Square Raffle prizes for the audience! The Astoria Bookshop will be onsite selling our readers’ books.
About our readers:
LILLY DANCYGER is a contributing editor and columnist at Catapult, and assistant editor at Barrelhouse Books. She’s the editor of Burn it Down, an anthology of essays on women’s anger from Seal Press; and the author of Negative Space, a reported and illustrated memoir forthcoming from the Santa Fe Writers Project in 2021. Her writing has been published by Longreads, The Washington Post, Glamour, Playboy, Rolling Stone, and more. Lilly lives in New York City, and she spends way too much time on twitter (where you can find her at @lillydancyger).
LESLIE JAMISON is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exams, as well as the novel The Gin Closet. A National Magazine Award finalist, she has contributed to publications including the New York Times Magazine, and New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and the Oxford American. She lives in Brooklyn and directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University. Her latest essay collection, Make It Scream, Make It Burn, was published by Little, Brown on September 24, 2019.
DARCY LOCKMAN is a journalist turned clinical psychologist who works with individuals and couples in New York City. Her first book, Brooklyn Zoo, chronicled the year she spent working in the psychiatric department of a city hospital. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Atlantic, among others. She lives with her family in Queens. Her latest book, All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership, was published by Harper in May 2019.
SHELLY ORIA is the author of New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014), which earned nominations for a Lambda Literary Award and the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, among other honors. In 2016 she coauthored a digital novella, CLEAN, commissioned by WeTransfer and McSweeney’s, which received two Lovie Awards from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Oria is the editor of Indelible in the Hippocampus, an anthology of #MeToo fiction, nonfiction, and poetry (McSweeney’s, Sep 2019). Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review and elsewhere; has been translated to other languages; and has won a number of awards. Oria lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she has a private practice as a life and creativity coach. Her website is www.shellyoria.com.
Photo credits: Lilly Dancyger by O’Malley Studios Leslie Jamison by Beowulf Sheehan Darcy Lockman by Josh Strauss Shelly Oria by T Kira Madden