| 440 Gallery Reading and Artist Talk Series |
Brooke Shaffner, the director of Between the Lines (NYC), curates and hosts a monthly reading and artist talk series at the 440 Gallery (http://440gallery.com/), a storefront gallery in Park Slope, Brooklyn that is collectively run by 13 artists of diverse ages, backgrounds, styles, and media including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, assemblage, and installation. In an effort to connect with the community and foster the exchange of ideas between artists and writers, 440 Gallery launched a monthly reading series in March of 2006. Readings are usually on the 3rd Sunday of each month at 4:40 pm.
Fiction readers include Julie Orringer, Aaron Hamburger, Christine Schutt, Darin Strauss, Lauren Grodstein, Stephen O’Connor, Terese Svoboda, Helen Benedict, Dawn Raffel, Karen Russell, Porochista Khakpour, Scott Snyder, Bryan Charles, Rachel Sherman, Josh Harmon, Shya Scanlon, Peter Selgin, and Douglas Light. Poet readers include Catherine Barnett, Susan Settlemyre-Williams, Lynne Potts, Sarah Gambito, Idra Novey, Patrick Rosal, Roger Bonair-Agard, Sara Michas-Martin, Carla Drysdale, Kate Greenstreet, Bruce MacKinnon, Matthew Thorburn, and Meghan Punschke.
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Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
4:40pm - 6:40pm
(Free Admission)
Featured Readers:
Aaron Hamburger Aaron Hamburger was awarded the Rome Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his short story collection THE VIEW FROM STALIN'S HEAD (Random House, 2004), also nominated for a Violet Quill Award. His next book, a novel titled FAITH FOR BEGINNERS (Random House, 2005), was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. His writing has appeared in Poets and Writers, Tin House, Details, The Forward, and Out. He has received fellowships from the Edward F. Albee Foundation and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbria, Italy, as well as a Yaddo residency. Currently he teaches creative writing at Columbia University.
Julie Orringer is the author of a novel, The Invisible Bridge, and an award-winning story collection, How to Breathe Underwater, which was a New York Times notable book and was named Book of the Year by the LA Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and The Washington Post, and have been widely anthologized; she has received fellowships from the New York Public Library, Stanford University, The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She lives in Brooklyn, where she is working on a new novel.
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