Battle of the Brain
| May |
| 20 |
| 7:00 pm |
Bookcourt: 163 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY | 7PM
The paperback edition of Josh Weil’s critically acclaimed collection of novellas, THE NEW VALLEY, will be released by Grove on May 11th. Alyssa Knickerbocker’s novella, YOUR RIGHTFUL HOME, just came out with Flatmancrooked. We’re all friends. What better way to celebrate than a reading/battle of wits!
Come meet the authors, hear them talk about themselves, get your books signed, and then watch them sword fight. It’ll be sick.
The Flatmancrooked editors will be in town, so you know there will be a party afterwards, probably somewhere like a bar.
Oh, by-the-bye, this thing is Hella Free. RSVP NOW!
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JOSH WEIL is the author of The New Valley (Grove, 2009), a New York Times Editors Choice and winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from The American Academy of Arts and Letters; the New Writers Award from the Great Lakes Colleges Association; and a “5 Under 35” Award from the National Book Foundation. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, Glimmer Train, Poets & Writers and American Short Fiction, among others, and he has received the Dana Award in Portfolio as well as fellowships from the the Writer’s Center, the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, and the Fulbright Foundation. As the 2009 Tickner Fellow, Weil is the writer-in-residence at Gilman School in Baltimore.
ALYSSA KNICKERBOCKER is currently completing her MFA in fiction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her novella “Your Rightful Home” was recently published by Flatmancrooked, and other work has appeared in Avery Anthology, Bat City Review, Meridian, Sou’wester, and elsewhere. She and her husband will soon move to Kentucky, where she has been awarded the Axton Fellowship at the University of Louisville.
