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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Class of 2007 Reading Series tonight at Boxcar Lounge

From the fabulous Jami Attenberg - I read an essay Min Jin Lee wrote way back over 10 years ago, when I was in law school, in Rebecca Walker's anthology To Be Real. She was an ex-lawyer trying to be a writer and I was a miserable, horrible law student trying to figure out what I wanted to do. We exchanged letters and I believe a phone call in which Min Jin Lee told me I have "books in my voice." I didn't really believe her and sometimes still don't, but since publishers seem to, I guess it's true. I can't wait to dig into the huge galley of her first novel Free Food for Millionaires I just got sent to me. She's obviously impressed other people in a big way too. I've been looking forward to this reading for a while. Also can't wait to see the always wonderful Felicia Sullivan read from her forthcoming must-read memoir The Sky Isn't Visible From Here.

The Class of 2007 Reading Series @ Boxcar Lounge
February 28, 2007 8 PM
Annie Choi, Joshua Ferris, Min Jin Lee, Felicia Sullivan

About the series:

Get a sneak preview of the coming year's best new first-time authors in the comfort of a cozy East Village bar. Boxcar Lounge is located at 168 Ave B (10th/11th). The series is curated by Jami Attenberg, author of Instant Love (Crown/Shaye Areheart Books, 2006) and the forthcoming novel The Kept Man (Riverhead Books, 2008).

Last season's fantastic readers included: Laura Dave, Janice Erlbaum, Shari Goldhagen, David Goodwillie, Robin Hazelwood, Karen Russell, Marisha Pessl, Hana Schank, Deborah Schoeneman, Scott Snyder, and
Pauls Toutonghi.

About the readers:

Annie Choi was born and raised in the greater Los Angeles area. She received her BA from University of California, Berkeley and her MFA in writing from Columbia University. Her first book, HAPPY BIRTHDAY OR WHATEVER: TRACK SUITS, KIM CHEE, AND OTHER FAMILY DISASTERS will be released April 3 by HarperCollins. She lives in New York City. Her website is www.annietown.com.



Joshua Ferris is the author of the forthcoming novel THEN WE CAME TO THE END (Little, Brown, March). His short fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, Best New American Voices and Prairie Schooner. He also writes for film.

Min Jin Lee went to Yale College where she was awarded both the Henry Wright Prize for Nonfiction and the James Ashmun Veech Prize for Fiction. She then attended Georgetown Law School and worked as a lawyer for several years before leaving to write full time. She has received the NYFA Fellowship for Fiction, the Peden Prize from the Missouri Review for Best Story, and the Narrative Prize for New and Emerging Writer. Her work has also been featured on NPR's Selected Shorts and anthologized in TO BE REAL (Doubleday, 1995) and BREEDER (Seal Press, 2001). Her first novel FREE FOOD FOR MILLIONAIRES is published by Warner Books for May 2007. She lives in New York with her husband and son.



Felicia C. Sullivan is a New York based writer with an MFA from Columbia University. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has been published in Swink, Post Road, Mississippi Review, Pindeldyboz, Ballyhoo Stories, Publisher's Weekly, the anthologies, HOMEWRECKER - AN ATLAS OF ILLICIT LOVES and MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING.An excerpt from her memoir was a notable essay in THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2006 collection. Algonquin Books will publish her memoir THE SKY ISN'T VISIBLE FROM HERE in August 2007. She is the founder of the literary journal, Small Spiral Notebook. Visit her website: www.feliciasullivan.com

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