LIC Reading Series

Panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on September 11, 2019, featuring Nancy Agabian (Me As Her Again), Trace DePass (Self-Portrait As the Space Between Us), Meera Nair (Video: Stories), and Alex Segura (Silent City). Check back Thursday for the discussion!

About our readers:

Nancy Agabian is the author of Princess Freak (Beyond Baroque Books, 2000), a mixed genre collection of poems, short prose, and performance texts on young women’s sexuality and rage, and Me as her again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter (Aunt Lute Books, 2008) a memoir about the influence of her Armenian family’s history on her coming-of-age. Me as her again was honored as a Lambda Literary Award finalist for LGBT Nonfiction and shortlisted for a William Saroyan International Prize.

Trace Howard DePass, a 2018 Poets House Fellow, is the author of Self-Portrait As the Space Between Us (PANK Books, 2018) and editor of Scholastic’s Best Teen Writing of 2017. He served as the 2016 Teen Poet Laureate for the Borough of Queens. His work has been featured on BET Next Level, Billboard, Blavity, NPR’s The Takeaway, and also resides in literary homes: Anomalous Press (fka Drunken Boat), Entropy Magazine, Split This Rock!, The Other Side of Violet, Best Teen Writing of 2015, & the East Coast Voices Anthology.

Meera Nair is the author of Video (Pantheon) and the children’s books Maya Saves the Day and Maya in a Mess (Duckbill: India). Video won the 7th Annual Asian-American Literary Award and was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. It was chosen as a Notable Book by the Kiriyama Pacific-Rim Prize, and was the Editor’s Choice at the San Francisco Chronicle. Nair’s work has been featured on National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Hindu and Huffington Post and in Threepenny Review, Calyx, India Abroad, Departures magazine and in the anthologies Charlie Chan is Dead-2, Money Changes Everything, and Delhi Noir.

Alex Segura is the author of the Pete Fernandez mystery series set in Miami, short stories that have appeared in numerous anthologies, and a number of best-selling and critically acclaimed comic books. He also co-writes the LETHAL LIT podcast.

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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.

Thank you to our local sponsors: LIC Bar, Astoria Bookshop, Sweetleaf Coffee, Gantry Bar LIC, and LIC Corner Cafe.

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Readings from the LIC Reading Series event on September 11, 2019, featuring Nancy Agabian (Me As Her Again), Trace DePass (Self-Portrait As the Space Between Us), Meera Nair (Video: Stories), and Alex Segura (Silent City). Check back Thursday for the discussion!

About our readers:

Nancy Agabian is the author of Princess Freak (Beyond Baroque Books, 2000), a mixed genre collection of poems, short prose, and performance texts on young women’s sexuality and rage, and Me as her again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter (Aunt Lute Books, 2008) a memoir about the influence of her Armenian family’s history on her coming-of-age. Me as her again was honored as a Lambda Literary Award finalist for LGBT Nonfiction and shortlisted for a William Saroyan International Prize.

Trace Howard DePass, a 2018 Poets House Fellow, is the author of Self-Portrait As the Space Between Us (PANK Books, 2018) and editor of Scholastic’s Best Teen Writing of 2017. He served as the 2016 Teen Poet Laureate for the Borough of Queens. His work has been featured on BET Next Level, Billboard, Blavity, NPR’s The Takeaway, and also resides in literary homes: Anomalous Press (fka Drunken Boat), Entropy Magazine, Split This Rock!, The Other Side of Violet, Best Teen Writing of 2015, & the East Coast Voices Anthology.

Meera Nair is the author of Video (Pantheon) and the children’s books Maya Saves the Day and Maya in a Mess (Duckbill: India). Video won the 7th Annual Asian-American Literary Award and was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. It was chosen as a Notable Book by the Kiriyama Pacific-Rim Prize, and was the Editor’s Choice at the San Francisco Chronicle. Nair’s work has been featured on National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Hindu and Huffington Post and in Threepenny Review, Calyx, India Abroad, Departures magazine and in the anthologies Charlie Chan is Dead-2, Money Changes Everything, and Delhi Noir.

Alex Segura is the author of the Pete Fernandez mystery series set in Miami, short stories that have appeared in numerous anthologies, and a number of best-selling and critically acclaimed comic books. He also co-writes the LETHAL LIT podcast.

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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.

Thank you to our local sponsors: LIC Bar, Astoria Bookshop, Sweetleaf Coffee, Gantry Bar LIC, and LIC Corner Cafe.

Learn more at licreadingseries.com

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The panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on May 9, 2019, featuring Idra Novey (Those Who Knew), John Wray (Godsend), and Garnette Cadogan (Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas). Listen to our previous episode for the readings.

About our readers:

Idra Novey is the award-winning author of the novel Ways to Disappear. Her work has been translated into ten languages and she’s translated numerous authors from Spanish and Portuguese, most recently Clarice Lispector. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.

John Wray is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Lost Time Accidents, Lowboy, The Right Hand of Sleep, and Canaan’s Tongue. He was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists in 2007. The recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Garnette Cadogan is an essayist and journalist who focuses on history, culture, and the arts. He is editor-at-large for Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, edited by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Shapiro, and is working on a book on walking. He lives in Charlottesville, VA.

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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.

Thank you to our local sponsors: LIC Bar, Astoria Bookshop, Sweetleaf Coffee, Gantry Bar LIC, and LIC Corner Cafe.

Learn more at licreadingseries.com

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Readings from the LIC Reading Series event on May 9, 2019, featuring Idra Novey (Those Who Knew), John Wray (Godsend), and Garnette Cadogan (Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas). Check back Thursday for the discussion!

About our readers:

Idra Novey is the award-winning author of the novel Ways to Disappear. Her work has been translated into ten languages and she’s translated numerous authors from Spanish and Portuguese, most recently Clarice Lispector. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.

John Wray is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Lost Time Accidents, Lowboy, The Right Hand of Sleep, and Canaan’s Tongue. He was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists in 2007. The recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Garnette Cadogan is an essayist and journalist who focuses on history, culture, and the arts. He is editor-at-large for Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, edited by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Shapiro, and is working on a book on walking. He lives in Charlottesville, VA.

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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.

Thank you to our local sponsors: LIC Bar, Astoria Bookshop, Sweetleaf Coffee, Gantry Bar LIC, and LIC Corner Cafe.

Learn more at licreadingseries.com

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The panel discussion from our event on January 8, 2019, featuring Jen Doll (UNCLAIMED BAGGAGE and SAVE THE DATE), Jaclyn Gilbert (LATE AIR), and Crystal Hana Kim (IF YOU LEAVE ME).

Find more details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/lic-reading-series/lic-reading-jen-doll-jaclyn-gilbert-crystal-hana-kim/989092187953921/

About our readers:

JEN DOLL is a freelance journalist and the author of the young adult novel Unclaimed Baggage as well as the memoir Save the Date: The Occasional Mortifications of a Serial Wedding Guest. She's written for The Atlantic, Glamour, New York magazine, The New York Times, Topic, The Village Voice, The Week, and other publications.

JACLYN GILBERT grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, running along its back roads in the Amish countryside. She ran Division I Cross Country and Track & Field at Yale, where she majored in English and French. After working in book publishing for several years, she earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She currently holds a research fellowship from the New York Public Library, and her stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming from Post Road Magazine, Tin House, Literary Hub, Longreads, and elsewhere. Late Air, her first novel, released from Little A in November.

CRYSTAL HANA KIM’s debut novel If You Leave Me was named a best book of 2018 by The Washington Post, ALA Booklist, Literary Hub, Cosmopolitan, and more. It was longlisted for the Center for Fiction Novel Prize. Crystal was a 2017 PEN America Dau Short Story Prize winner and has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Hedgebrook, Jentel, among others. Her work has been published in Elle magazine, The Paris Review, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor at Apogee Journal.

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.

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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.

Thank you to our local sponsors: LIC Bar, Astoria Bookshop, Sweetleaf Coffee, Gantry Bar LIC, and LIC Corner Cafe.

Learn more at licreadingseries.com

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Readings from our event on January 8, 2019, featuring Jen Doll (UNCLAIMED BAGGAGE and SAVE THE DATE), Jaclyn Gilbert (LATE AIR), and Crystal Hana Kim (IF YOU LEAVE ME).

Find more details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/lic-reading-series/lic-reading-jen-doll-jaclyn-gilbert-crystal-hana-kim/989092187953921/

About our readers:

JEN DOLL is a freelance journalist and the author of the young adult novel Unclaimed Baggage as well as the memoir Save the Date: The Occasional Mortifications of a Serial Wedding Guest. She's written for The Atlantic, Glamour, New York magazine, The New York Times, Topic, The Village Voice, The Week, and other publications.

JACLYN GILBERT grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, running along its back roads in the Amish countryside. She ran Division I Cross Country and Track & Field at Yale, where she majored in English and French. After working in book publishing for several years, she earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She currently holds a research fellowship from the New York Public Library, and her stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming from Post Road Magazine, Tin House, Literary Hub, Longreads, and elsewhere. Late Air, her first novel, released from Little A in November.

CRYSTAL HANA KIM’s debut novel If You Leave Me was named a best book of 2018 by The Washington Post, ALA Booklist, Literary Hub, Cosmopolitan, and more. It was longlisted for the Center for Fiction Novel Prize. Crystal was a 2017 PEN America Dau Short Story Prize winner and has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Hedgebrook, Jentel, among others. Her work has been published in Elle magazine, The Paris Review, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor at Apogee Journal.

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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.

Thank you to our local sponsors: LIC Bar, Astoria Bookshop, Sweetleaf Coffee, Gantry Bar LIC, and LIC Corner Cafe.

Learn more at licreadingseries.com

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December 11, 2018 at the LIC Reading Series at LIC Bar in Queens, NY

Panel discussion from our event on December 11, 2018, featuring Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (FRIDAY BLACK), Hannah Lillith Assadi (SONORA), and Keith Gessen (A TERRIBLE COUNTRY).

Find more details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/213310262886900/

About our readers:

NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH has an MFA from Syracuse University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Esquire, Guernica, Printer’s Row, and the Breakwater Review, where ZZ Packer awarded him the Breakwater Review Fiction Prize. He was selected by Colson Whitehead for the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35.” He lives in Syracuse. FRIDAY BLACK is his first book.  

HANNAH LILLITH ASSADI was raised in Arizona and now lives in Brooklyn. She received her MFA in fiction from the Columbia University School of the Arts. Her first novel SONORA (Soho 2017) received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. In 2018, she was named a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree. Her second novel THE STARS ARE NOT YET BELLS is forthcoming from Riverhead.  

KEITH GESSEN was born in Moscow and grew up outside of Boston. He is a founding editor of n+1 and a contributor to the London Review of Books and the New Yorker. He has translated Svetlana Alexievich and Ludmilla Petrushevskaya from Russian and is the author of the novels All the Sad Young Literary Men and A Terrible Country.

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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.

Thank you to our local sponsors: LIC Bar, Astoria Bookshop, Sweetleaf Coffee, Gantry Bar LIC, and LIC Corner Cafe.

Learn more at licreadingseries.com

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December 11, 2018 at the LIC Reading Series at LIC Bar in Queens, NY

Readings from our event on December 11, 2018, featuring Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (FRIDAY BLACK), Hannah Lillith Assadi (SONORA), and Keith Gessen (A TERRIBLE COUNTRY).

Find more details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/213310262886900/

About our readers:

NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH has an MFA from Syracuse University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Esquire, Guernica, Printer’s Row, and the Breakwater Review, where ZZ Packer awarded him the Breakwater Review Fiction Prize. He was selected by Colson Whitehead for the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35.” He lives in Syracuse. FRIDAY BLACK is his first book.  

HANNAH LILLITH ASSADI was raised in Arizona and now lives in Brooklyn. She received her MFA in fiction from the Columbia University School of the Arts. Her first novel SONORA (Soho 2017) received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. In 2018, she was named a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree. Her second novel THE STARS ARE NOT YET BELLS is forthcoming from Riverhead.  

KEITH GESSEN was born in Moscow and grew up outside of Boston. He is a founding editor of n+1 and a contributor to the London Review of Books and the New Yorker. He has translated Svetlana Alexievich and Ludmilla Petrushevskaya from Russian and is the author of the novels All the Sad Young Literary Men and A Terrible Country.

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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.

Thank you to our local sponsors: LIC Bar, Astoria Bookshop, Sweetleaf Coffee, Gantry Bar LIC, and LIC Corner Cafe.

Learn more at licreadingseries.com

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Where is all of the literary love for Queens? It's right here at LIC Reading Series. Join us 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, NY.

Hosted by Catherine LaSota.

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