Beatrice @ The Merc: Elisa Albert & Barbara Suter

The series for debut novelists at the Mercantile Library has been going so well that the Merc and I agreed to stage more events this month and in May. I hope you’ll come join us next Wednesday, March 11, with Elisa Albert and Barbara Suter, starting at 7 p.m. at the Mercantile (17 E 47th St.) with a brief wine reception immediately following the reading.

Elisa Albert (The Book of Dahlia) is currently editing an anthology about sibling relationships called Freud’s Blind Spot, to be published in 2010. She is a founding editor of Jewcy.com and an adjunct assistant professor of creative writing at Columbia University.

Actor and playwright Barbara Suter (Dorothy On the Rocks) has worked extensively in New York and regional theater. She was a member of the comedy group, Rumble in the Redroom. Her play, Finally Flannery: My Search for Flannery O’Connor was produced off-Broadway at New York Theater Workshop and at the Lucas Theater in Savannah, Georgia. She has worked in radio including Small Things Considered for NPR, and in the role of Annie in the Peabody Award winning radio drama, Breakdown And Back. She is presently working on her second novel, Night Flight, which involves two women, one man, lots of baggage and plenty of drama.

6 March 2009 | events |

Paul Tremblay’s Video @ The Merc

In case you didn’t make it to last week’s “Mystery Night” reading at the Mercantile Library, here’s a 9-minute video by Paul Tremblay, the author of The Little Sleep, recounting his trip to New York City—a visit with his agent, dinner with his cousin, and then a post-reading chat with me, covering Jack Bauer’s impatience for matters literary and Paul’s deft avoidance of all the wrong ways to write a novel about a narcoleptic private eye.

3 March 2009 | events |