Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Sunday Night Fiction :: Rachel Sherman and Karen Russell

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Title: Sunday Night Fiction
Date: 09/17/06
Duration (min:sec): 47:01
File size: 15 MB

Rachel Sherman holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. Her short stories have appeared in McSweeney's, n+1, Open City, Post Road and Story Quarterly, among other publications. Her book of short stories, The First Hurt, has been short-listed for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Book Award.

“Rachel Sherman writes stories like splinters: they get under your skin and stay with you long after you’ve closed the book. These haunting stories are both wonderfully, deeply weird and unsettlingly familiar.”—Judy Budnitz


Karen Russell, a native of Miami, has been featured in both The New Yorker’s debut fiction issue and in New York magazine as one of the twenty-five people to watch under the age of twenty-five. She is a graduate of the Columbia MFA program and is the 2005 recipient of the Transatlantic Review/Henfield Foundation Award, and her fiction recently appeared in Conjunctions and Granta. She currently lives in New York City. She is twenty-four years old. She reads from her collection: St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves.

“This book is a miracle. Karen Russell is a literary mystic, channeling spectral tales that surge with feeling. A devastatingly beautiful debut by a powerful new writer.” –Ben Marcus

Saturday, September 16, 2006

09.10.06 Sunday Night Fiction w. Elisa Albert & Binnie Kirschenbaum

KGB Bar's Sunday night fiction series returned from summer hiatus this week with readings from Elisa Albert and Binnie Kirschenbaum.

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Time (min:sec): 33:49
Date: Sunday, September 10, 2006