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@franklinparkreadingseries
This month on March 16, we're thrilled to celebrate our 11th Anniversary with a slate of trailblazing authors sharing newly released fiction and poetry: Deb Olin Unferth (Barn 8), Clare Beams (The Illness Lesson), Sam Pink (The Ice Cream Man), Malcolm Tariq (Heed the Hollow), Mary South (You Will Never Be Forgotten), and Tariq Shah (Whiteout Conditions)!
At this month’s multgenre event on February 10, we’re celebrating outstanding new work by Amber Sparks (And I Do Not Forgive You), Rye Curtis (Kingdomtide), Nicolette Polek (Imaginary Museums), Amanda Leduc (Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space), Marco Rafala (How Fires End), and Stacie Evans (The Rumpus, Jezebel). Join us for a provocative night of surreal short fiction, fairy tales reenvisioned through feminist and disablist lenses, fearless memoir, survival adventures, and more!
On January 13, we're thrilled to kick off our 2020 season with literary superstar Carmen Maria Machado (In the Dream House, Her Body and Other Parties)! Join us for a night of groundbreaking prose and poetry, featuring Andre Perry (Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now), Donika Kelly (Bestiary), Hal Y. Zhang (Hard Mother, Spider Mother, Soft Mother), and Stacie Evans (The Rumpus, Jezebel).
On October 8, we're thrilled to welcome six internationally acclaimed authors to Franklin Park: Returning stars Ben Marcus (Notes from the Fog) and Samantha Hunt (The Seas), famed memoirist and lit impresario Amanda Stern (Little Panic), and notable debut novelists R.O. Kwon (The Incendiaries), Bram Presser (The Book of Dirt), and Dan Sheehan (Restless Souls)! Free admission, $5 beers, plus a free-to-enter raffle for the authors' books!
On September 17th, we're kicking off our fall season with six of today's most exciting fiction writers: Lynne Tillman (Men and Apparitions) , Laura van den Berg (The Third Hotel), Ling Ma (Severance), Lydia Kiesling (The Golden State), Tara Isabella Burton (Social Creature), and Michael Seidlinger (My Pet Serial Killer)! Unfurling tales of obsession, grief, social isolation, phantasms, and the apocalypse, these fearless, wildly original authors dissect the chaos and anxiety of contemporary life.
Mobsters, carnies, superheroes, pop stars, ghosts, and drifters – you’ll meet an eclectic range of characters at our August reading, brought to life by a mix of established and up-and-coming authors: Dawn Raffel (The Strange Case of Dr. Couney, The Secret Life of Objects), Alexia Arthurs (How to Love a Jamaican), Michael Bible (Empire of Light, Sophia), Henry Stewart (True Crime Bay Ridge), Ariel Lewiton (Guernica, Virginia Quarterly Review), and Josiah Akhtab (Confession). Free Admission, $5 beers + a free-to-enter raffle for the authors' amazing books!
We’re kicking off our summer season with a slate of acclaimed fiction writers, established and debut: Alissa Nutting (Made for Love, Tampa), Rumaan Alam (That Kind of Mother, Rich and Pretty), Jamel Brinkley (A Lucky Man), Julia Dixon Evans (How to Set Yourself on Fire), and Malcolm Boyd (Mann Walker trilogy).
In June, the legendary Mary Gaitskill will return to Franklin Park for a special musical/literary performance with multi-instrumentalist Peg Simone. She will be joined by three other mesmerizing authors: essayist Chelsea Hodson (Tonight I'm Someone Else), poet Safiya Sinclair (Cannibal), and novelist Bethany C. Morrow (MEM).
In May, the Franklin Park Reading Series showcases some of today's best nonfiction -- memoir, essays, biography, and family history -- from celebrated authors Alexander Chee (How to Write an Autobiographical Novel), Gregory Pardlo (Air Traffic), Hanif Abdurraqib (They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us), Mike Scalise (The Brand New Catastrophe), and Sandy Allen (A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story About Schizophrenia).
On April 9, Walter Mosley will read from and signed his new novel, Down the River unto the Sea. He will be joined by Tiffany D. Jackson (Allegedly, Monday's Not Coming) and Morgan Jerkins (This Will Be My Undoing).
We’re celebrating nine years of provocative lit in Crown Heights on March 12 with a mix of notable, award-winning writers and exciting debut authors presenting newly released work: Christine Schutt (Pure Hollywood, Prosperous Friends), Uzodinma Iweala (Speak No Evil, Beasts of No Nation), Stefan Merrill Block (Oliver Loving, The Storm at the Door), Kate Greathead (Laura & Emma), Alanna Okun (The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater), and Chandler Klang Smith (The Sky Is Yours)!
In February, the Franklin Park Reading Series is celebrating small presses, showcasing a slate of notable indie authors from across the country: Scott McClanahan (The Sarah Book), Hermione Hoby (Neon in Daylight), Colin Winnette (The Job of the Wasp), Juliet Escoria (Witch Hunt, Black Cloud), Tatiana Ryckman (I Don’t Think of You (Until I Do)), and Kyle Lucia Wu (Joyland)!
January will bring our ninth annual Short Fiction Night, featuring one of this year's most lauded literary stars, National Book Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado (Her Body and Other Parties), Grace Paley prize winner Douglas Light (Girls in Trouble), and three of our favorite locals, Sasha Fletcher (it is going to be a good year), 2017 Center for Fiction fellow Alexandra Tanner (Nashville Review, Joyland), and Anika Lani (Columbia Journal)!
We’re closing out 2017 with a big bash, featuring outstanding fiction, biography, and memoir from Ruth Franklin (Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life), Katherine Faw (Ultraluminous, Young God), Victor P. Corona (Night Class: A Downtown Memoir), Lee Matthew Goldberg (The Mentor), and Jonathan Reiss (Getting Off)!
Our November 2017 event features superstar Kelly Link (Get in Trouble, Magic for Beginners) and award-winning authors Daniel Jose Older (Shadowhouse Fall), Brian Allen Carr (Sip), and Deirdre Coyle (Hobart, Joyland)! There will be stories of animate shadows, vivid ghosts, seductive devils, invisible fairies, master magicians, and more!
On Monday, October 9, we're honored to present the legendary author and poet Eileen Myles (Afterglow, Cool For You), along with stellar writers Alex Gilvarry (Eastman Was Here), David Burr Gerrard (The Epiphany Machine) , Simeon Marsalis (As Lie Is to Grin), and Jana Benova (Seeing People Off)! Hear readings of outstanding, recently published memoir and fiction, enjoy $5 drafts, and get a shot at the authors' books in our free-to-enter raffle! Free Admission!
Join us for a special BKBF Bookend Event on September 11 featuring readings of bold new fiction and essays from groundbreaking authors Jenny Zhang, Melissa Febos, Chelsea Martin, Dina Nayeri, and Elizabeth Ellen, who examine identity, class, art, displacement, and obsession in their fearless, visceral work. Enjoy a $5 draft drink special, and get a shot at the authors' books in our free-to-enter raffle!
Check our Facebook event page for more information.