Queens Writers Represent!

This Sunday, January 22st, at 3 p.m., I’ll be hosting a literary event at the L.I.C. bar in Long Island City (45-58 Vernon Blvd., at the corner of 46th Avenue). Two writers from Astoria decided to have a reading together, and then they invited me to introduce them because I’m a local, too!

Marcy Dermansky is a MacDowell Fellow who has won the Smallmouth Press Andre Dubus Novella Award and the Story Magazine Carson McCullers short story prize. Her stories have been published in numerous literary journals, including McSweeneys, The Alaska Quarterly Review, and The Indiana Review. She is a film critic for About.com. Twins is her debut novel, but she’s not an identical twin.

Tara McCarthy wrote the memoir Been There, Haven’t Done That back in the ’90s; her recently published novel, Love Will Tear Us Apart, is about conjoined twins who are also pop stars. Tara’s work has appeared in magazines including Seventeen and Good Housekeeping, and on websites including Killing the Buddha and Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood. Her novel for teens, The Pursuit of Happiness, is due out in March from MTV Books.

19 January 2006 | events |