In the carriage house of the LIC Bar… Join us by the fire for readings and discussion with D. Foy, Christine Reilly, and Amy Shearn. FREE! Prizes for the audience! 7/E/M/G to Court Square Books for sale onsite from Astoria Bookshop, or preorder signed copies at www.astoriabookshop.com/licreading
About our readers:
D. FOY is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, Made to Break, and the novel, Patricide. His work has appeared in Guernica, Literary Hub, Salon, Hazlitt, Post Road, Electric Literature, BOMB, The Literary Review, Midnight Breakfast, The Scofield, and The Georgia Review, among others, and has been included in the booksLaundromat and Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial. www.dfoyble.com.
CHRISTINE REILLY has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, the Dalton School, City and Country School, and Collegiate School. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Bucknell University and her Master’s degree in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. Sunday’s on the Phone to Monday is her debut novel. Christine lives in Manhattan.
AMY SHEARN is the author of the novels The Mermaid of Brooklyn and How Far Is the Ocean from Here, and the introduction to her grandmother’s posthumously published novel The Little Bastard. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Real Simple, Martha Stewart Living, Poets & Writers, Oprah.com, and most recently in the anthology Silent Beaches, Untold Stories: New York City’s Forgotten Waterfront. In an attempt to seem interesting, Amy once lived in New Mexico, but mostly she is from the Midwest, and has lived in Brooklyn for over ten years. She has taught writing, curated a reading series and an interview series, and is currently the assistant editor at JSTOR Daily. She also counts among her accomplishments creating two small children who keep getting bigger.