It’s our last event of the summer! Come celebrate the season with us and hear from the wonderful authors Angelica Baker, Lisa Ko, and Courtney Maum, who have published some of the most anticipated and celebrated books of the past year!
FREE! Readings + panel discussion + prizes Closest subway: 7/E/M/G to Court Square Books for sale onsite courtesy Astoria Bookshop
About our readers:
ANGELICA BAKER was born and raised in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.F.A. from Columbia University. She now lives in Brooklyn and has worked as a babysitter, bartender, waitress, personal assistant, hostess, and tutor. Her debut novel Our Little Racket was published by Ecco in June 2017.
LISA KO is the author of The Leavers, a novel which won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Her writing has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2016, The New York Times, Apogee Journal, Narrative, O. Magazine, Copper Nickel, Storychord, One Teen Story, Brooklyn Review, and elsewhere. Lisa has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the MacDowell Colony, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Writers OMI at Ledig House, the Jerome Foundation, Blue Mountain Center, the Van Lier Foundation, Hawthornden Castle, the I-Park Foundation, the Anderson Center, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. Born in Queens and raised in Jersey, she lives in Brooklyn.
COURTNEY MAUM is the author of the acclaimed novel I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You, the chapbook Notes from Mexico and the new novel, Touch, selected by O the Oprah Magazine, Marie Claire, Glamour and many other outlets as one of the best books of summer. Her short fiction, book reviews, and essays on the writing life have been widely published in outlets such as The New York Times, Tin House, Electric Literature, and Buzzfeed, and she has co-written films that have debuted at Sundance and won awards at Cannes. At various points in her life, she has been a trend forecaster, a fashion publicist, and a party promoter for Corona Extra. She currently works as a product namer for M·A·C cosmetics and other companies from her home in Litchfield County, CT, where she founded the interdisciplinary creative retreat, #TheCabins, that brings makers from different disciplines together for four days in the woods.
This 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.