LIC Reading Series

Where is all of the literary love for Queens? It’s right here at LIC Reading Series. Join them each week for stories, readings, and discussions with acclaimed writers, recorded with a live audience in the cozy carriage house of a classic pub in Long Island City, Queens, New York, and hosted by founder Catherine LaSota.

This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on July 10, 2018, with Chelsea Hodson (Tonight I’m Someone Else), Allie Rowbottom (Jell-O Girls), and Amanda Stern (Little Panic).

Chelsea Hodson is the author of the book of essays Tonight I’m Someone Else and the chapbook Pity the Animal. She teaches at Bennington College and she co-founded the Mors Tua Vita Mea workshop in Sezze Romano, Italy. She has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell Colony and PEN Center USA Emerging Voices. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Frieze Magazine, Hazlitt, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Allie Rowbottom‘s essays can be found in Vanity Fair, Salon, The Florida Review, No Tokens, The South Loop Review, PQueue, Hunger Mountain, The Rumpus, A Women’s Thing and elsewhere. Her essay “Ghosts and Houses” won the 2015 Editor’s Award from The Florida Review and received a “notable” mention in The Best American Essays of 2016. Her long lyric work, “World of Blue” received her a “notable” mention in The Best American Essays of 2015. She has taught fiction and non-fiction at the University of Houston and CalArts, as well as at Boldface, an undergraduate creative writing conference. Allie has been the recipient of fellowships from Inprint and Tin House, where she was a 2016 scholar.

Amanda Stern is the author of the novel The Long Haul and the nine book Frankly Frannie middle grade series. Since 2003, she has helmed the Happy Ending Reading series and she’s been a NYFA Fiction Fellow and held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Salon, Post Road and St. Ann’s Review.

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This event was 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.

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Where is all of the literary love for Queens? It’s right here at LIC Reading Series. Join them each week for stories, readings, and discussions with acclaimed writers, recorded with a live audience in the cozy carriage house of a classic pub in Long Island City, Queens, New York, and hosted by founder Catherine LaSota.

This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on July 10, 2018, with Chelsea Hodson (Tonight I’m Someone Else), Allie Rowbottom (Jell-O Girls), and Amanda Stern (Little Panic). Check back Thursday for the discussion!

Chelsea Hodson is the author of the book of essays Tonight I’m Someone Else and the chapbook Pity the Animal. She teaches at Bennington College and she co-founded the Mors Tua Vita Mea workshop in Sezze Romano, Italy. She has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell Colony and PEN Center USA Emerging Voices. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Frieze Magazine, Hazlitt, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Allie Rowbottom‘s essays can be found in Vanity Fair, Salon, The Florida Review, No Tokens, The South Loop Review, PQueue, Hunger Mountain, The Rumpus, A Women’s Thing and elsewhere. Her essay “Ghosts and Houses” won the 2015 Editor’s Award from The Florida Review and received a “notable” mention in The Best American Essays of 2016. Her long lyric work, “World of Blue” received her a “notable” mention in The Best American Essays of 2015. She has taught fiction and non-fiction at the University of Houston and CalArts, as well as at Boldface, an undergraduate creative writing conference. Allie has been the recipient of fellowships from Inprint and Tin House, where she was a 2016 scholar.

Amanda Stern is the author of the novel The Long Haul and the nine book Frankly Frannie middle grade series. Since 2003, she has helmed the Happy Ending Reading series and she’s been a NYFA Fiction Fellow and held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Salon, Post Road and St. Ann’s Review.

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This event was 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.

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This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on May 8, 2018, in collaboration with Feminist Press, with Chaya Babu (Go Home!), YZ Chin (Though I Get Home), and Bridgett Davis (The World According to Fannie Davis).

About the Readers:

CHAYA BABU is a Brooklyn-based writer, journalist, educator, and healer. Her work has been featured in The Margins, Open City, BuzzFeed, CNN, The Feminist Wire, Huffington Post, and more. She is completing a creative writing MFA at Pratt, where her thesis manuscript focused on diaspora, loss, and the intergenerational trauma of migration and exile. Chaya contributed to the anthology Go Home!, published by Feminist Press in March 2018.

YZ CHIN is the author of Though I Get Home (Feminist Press, 2018), premier winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize. She has also written two poetry chapbooks, out or forthcoming from Anomalous Press and dancing girl press. Born and raised in Taiping, Malaysia, she now lives in New York. She works by day as a software engineer, and writes by night.

BRIDGETT M. DAVIS is the author of the forthcoming memoir, The World According To Fannie Davis (Little, Brown and Company, 2019), and the novels Into the Go-Slow (Feminist Press, 2014) and Shifting Through Neutral (Amistad/HarperCollins, 2005). She is director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program and Professor of Journalism and Creative Writing at Baruch College, CUNY.

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This event was 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.

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This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on May 8, 2018, in collaboration with Feminist Press, with Chaya Babu (Go Home!), YZ Chin (Though I Get Home), and Bridgett Davis (The World According to Fannie Davis).

About the Readers:

CHAYA BABU is a Brooklyn-based writer, journalist, educator, and healer. Her work has been featured in The Margins, Open City, BuzzFeed, CNN, The Feminist Wire, Huffington Post, and more. She is completing a creative writing MFA at Pratt, where her thesis manuscript focused on diaspora, loss, and the intergenerational trauma of migration and exile. Chaya contributed to the anthology Go Home!, published by Feminist Press in March 2018.

YZ CHIN is the author of Though I Get Home (Feminist Press, 2018), premier winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize. She has also written two poetry chapbooks, out or forthcoming from Anomalous Press and dancing girl press. Born and raised in Taiping, Malaysia, she now lives in New York. She works by day as a software engineer, and writes by night.

BRIDGETT M. DAVIS is the author of the forthcoming memoir, The World According To Fannie Davis (Little, Brown and Company, 2019), and the novels Into the Go-Slow (Feminist Press, 2014) and Shifting Through Neutral (Amistad/HarperCollins, 2005). She is director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program and Professor of Journalism and Creative Writing at Baruch College, CUNY.

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This event was 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.

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This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on July 11, 2017, with Angelica Baker (Our Little Racket), Lisa Ko (The Leavers), and Courtney Maum (Costalegre).

About the 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.

Lisa Ko’s fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2016, Apogee Journal, Narrative, Copper Nickel, the Asian Pacific American Journal, and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Writers OMI at Ledig House, the Jerome Foundation, and Blue Mountain Center, among others. She was born in New York City, where she now lives.

Courtney Maum is the author of the novels Costalegre (a GOOP book club pick and one of Glamour Magazine’s top books of the decade), I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You, and Touch (a New York Times Editor’s Choice and NPR Best Book of the Year selection), and the handbook Before and After the Book Deal: A writer’s guide to finishing, publishing, promoting, and surviving your first book, forthcoming from Catapult.

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This event was 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.

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This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on July 11, 2017, with Angelica Baker (Our Little Racket), Lisa Ko (The Leavers), and Courtney Maum (Costalegre).

About the 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.

Lisa Ko’s fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2016, Apogee Journal, Narrative, Copper Nickel, the Asian Pacific American Journal, and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Writers OMI at Ledig House, the Jerome Foundation, and Blue Mountain Center, among others. She was born in New York City, where she now lives.

Courtney Maum is the author of the novels Costalegre (a GOOP book club pick and one of Glamour Magazine’s top books of the decade), I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You, and Touch (a New York Times Editor’s Choice and NPR Best Book of the Year selection), and the handbook Before and After the Book Deal: A writer’s guide to finishing, publishing, promoting, and surviving your first book, forthcoming from Catapult.

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This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on February 27, 2018, for an event we did in partnership with the Catapult writing program, with Hermione Hoby (Neon in Daylight), Kanishk Tharoor (Swimmer Among the Stars), and Cherise Wolas (The Resurrection of Joan Ashby). 

About our readers:

Hermione Hoby grew up in south London and has lived in New York since 2010. She is a freelance journalist who writes about culture and gender for publications including The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Times Literary Supplement. She also wrote the “Stranger of the Week” column for The Awl. Neon in Daylight is her first novel.

Kanishk Tharoor is the author of Swimmer Among the Stars (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017). His journalism and fiction have been published in the New York Times, Guardian, The Atlantic, The Nation, Paris Review, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Virginia Quarterly Review, and his work has been nominated for the National Magazine Award. He is the presenter and writer of the BBC radio series Museum of Lost Objects and a columnist for the Hindustan Times and the Hindu Business Line in India. He has a BA from Yale and an MFA from NYU. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.

Cherise Wolas lives in New York City with her husband. She is the author of two novels, The Resurrection of Joan Ashby and The Family Tabor.

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This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on February 27, 2018, for an event we did in partnership with the Catapult writing program, with Hermione Hoby (Neon in Daylight), Kanishk Tharoor (Swimmer Among the Stars), and Cherise Wolas (The Resurrection of Joan Ashby). 

About our readers:

Hermione Hoby grew up in south London and has lived in New York since 2010. She is a freelance journalist who writes about culture and gender for publications including The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Times Literary Supplement. She also wrote the “Stranger of the Week” column for The Awl. Neon in Daylight is her first novel.

Kanishk Tharoor is the author of Swimmer Among the Stars (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017). His journalism and fiction have been published in the New York Times, Guardian, The Atlantic, The Nation, Paris Review, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Virginia Quarterly Review, and his work has been nominated for the National Magazine Award. He is the presenter and writer of the BBC radio series Museum of Lost Objects and a columnist for the Hindustan Times and the Hindu Business Line in India. He has a BA from Yale and an MFA from NYU. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.

Cherise Wolas lives in New York City with her husband. She is the author of two novels, The Resurrection of Joan Ashby and The Family Tabor.

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Panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on April 10, 2018, featuring Simeon Marsalis (As Lie Is To Grin), Cynan Jones (Stillicide), and Lynne Tillman (What Would Lynne Tillman Do?). Check back Thursday for the discussion!

About our readers:

Simeon Marsalis was born in 1990 and graduated from the University of Vermont in 2013. He is from New Rochelle, New York, and has lived in New York City and New Orleans. As Lie Is to Grin is his first book.

Cynan Jones was born in 1975 near Aberaeron, Wales where he now lives and works. He is the author of five short novels, The Long Dry, Everything I Found on the Beach, Bird, Blood, Snow, The Dig, and Cove. He has been longlisted and shortlisted for numerous prizes and won a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award 2007, a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize 2014 and the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize 2015. His latest work is Stillicide, a collection of twelve stories commissioned by BBC Radio 4 that aired over the summer 2019.

Lynne Tillman’s novel include Haunted Houses, Motion Sickness, Cast in Doubt, No Lease on Life, American Genius, A Comedy, and, most recently, Men and Apparitions. Her fiction collections include Absence Makes the Heart, The Madame Realism Complex, This Is Not It, Someday This Will Be Funny, and The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories. Additionally, Tillman has published a number of books of nonfiction and essays, including The Broad Picture, The Velvet Years: Warhol’s Factory 1965-67, Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co., and What Would Lynne Tillman Do?, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.

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Readings from the LIC Reading Series event on April 10, 2018, featuring Simeon Marsalis (As Lie Is To Grin), Cynan Jones (Stillicide), and Lynne Tillman (What Would Lynne Tillman Do?). Check back Thursday for the discussion!

About our readers:

Simeon Marsalis was born in 1990 and graduated from the University of Vermont in 2013. He is from New Rochelle, New York, and has lived in New York City and New Orleans. As Lie Is to Grin is his first book.

Cynan Jones was born in 1975 near Aberaeron, Wales where he now lives and works. He is the author of five short novels, The Long Dry, Everything I Found on the Beach, Bird, Blood, Snow, The Dig, and Cove. He has been longlisted and shortlisted for numerous prizes and won a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award 2007, a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize 2014 and the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize 2015. His latest work is Stillicide, a collection of twelve stories commissioned by BBC Radio 4 that aired over the summer 2019.

Lynne Tillman’s novel include Haunted Houses, Motion Sickness, Cast in Doubt, No Lease on Life, American Genius, A Comedy, and, most recently, Men and Apparitions. Her fiction collections include Absence Makes the Heart, The Madame Realism Complex, This Is Not It, Someday This Will Be Funny, and The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories. Additionally, Tillman has published a number of books of nonfiction and essays, including The Broad Picture, The Velvet Years: Warhol’s Factory 1965-67, Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co., and What Would Lynne Tillman Do?, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.

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