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SUMMARY:LIC Reading 3yrs: Lynne Tillman\, Cynan Jones\, Simeon Marsalis
DESCRIPTION:It’s the THREE YEAR anniversary of the LIC Reading Series!\nCome celebrate with us as we listen to readings and a panel discussion with Cynan Jones\, Simeon Marsalis\, and Lynne Tillman.\nTHERE WILL BE CAKE. \nFree!\n7/E/M/G to Court Square\nDrinks/Readings/Panel Discussion/Prizes\nBooks for sale onsite courtesy Astoria Bookshop \nAbout our readers: \nCYNAN JONES was born near Aberaeron on the west coast of Wales in 1975. He is the author of five novels: The Long Dry;Everything I Found on the Beach; Bird\, Blood\, Snow; The Dig; and Cove. His work has been published in more than twenty countries and his short stories have appeared in publications including Granta and The New Yorker. He has won a Betty Trask Award\, a Jerwood Fiction Prize\, the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize\, and the 2017 BBC National Short Story Award. He has been long-listed for the Kirkus Prize\, the Warwick Prize\, and the Europese Literatuurprijs\, and short-listed for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. \nSIMEON MARSALIS was born in 1990 and graduated from the University of Vermont in 2013. He has lived in New York\, New Hampshire\, and New Orleans. As Lie Is to Grin is his first book. \nLYNNE TILLMAN is a novelist\, short story writer\, and cultural critic. Her novels are Haunted Houses; Motion Sickness; Cast in Doubt; No Lease on Life\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and American Genius\, A Comedy. Her nonfiction books include The Velvet Years: Warhol’s Factory 1965–1967\, with photographs by Stephen Shore; Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co.; and What Would Lynne Tillman Do?\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Her most recent short story collections are Someday This Will Be Funny and The Complete Madame Realism. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writing Fellowship. Tillman is Professor/Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at The University of Albany and teaches at the School of Visual Arts’ Art Criticism and Writing MFA Program in New York. She lives in Manhattan with bass player David Hofstra. Her novel Men and Apparitions was published by Soft Skull Press in March 2018. \nThis event is made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. \n
URL:https://weheartastoria.com/event/lic-reading-3yrs-lynne-tillman-cynan-jones-simeon-marsalis/
LOCATION:LIC Bar\, 45-58 Vernon Boulevard\, Long Island City\, NY\, 11101\, United States
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