Writers at the Alliance: November 28, 2006
WRITERS, GUERRILLAS AND BEARS
Educational Alliance, 197 East Broadway
Tuesday, November 28
7:00 pm
Three novelists read about homegrown radicals, underground moms, and fugitive bears.
The Educational Alliance is located at 197 East Broadway (F train to East Broadway, walk two blocks to Jefferson. Link to map). Readings take place in the Mazer Theater. This is a free event. For further information, e-mail Liz Brown at readings AT killfee DOT net or call the Educational Alliance at (212) 780-2300, ext. 378.
READERS
CLIFFORD CHASE is the author of Winkie, a novel, and The Hurry-Up Song, a memoir. He is also the editor of Queer 13: Lesbian and Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade. Bookforum called Winkie “a case study in everything a novel should be,” and Entertainment Weekly named it a “must read.” More news of Winkie here.
CHRISTOPHER SORRENTINO is the author of the novels Sound on Sound and Trance, which was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award. His fiction, essays, criticism, and journalism have appeared in the Baffler, Blender, Conjunctions, McSweeney’s, Playboy, and numerous other publications. He currently teaches writing at Eugene Lang College of the New School.
DANA SPIOTTA is the author Eat the Document, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award. The New York Times described it as “a book that possesses the staccato ferocity of a Joan Didion essay and the razzle-dazzle language and the historical resonance of a Don DeLillo novel.” Dana Spiotta’s first novel, Lightning Field, was a New York Times Notable Book of the year, and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the West. She lives in Cherry Valley, New York.