Beatrice @ The Merc: Jedediah Berry & Paul Tremblay
Wednesday, February 25 is going to be “Mystery Night” at the Mercantile Library, as Beatrice.com’s reading series for debut novelists hosts two writers who’ve tweaked the classic conventions of the private investigator novel to probe the permeable boundary between reality and imagination. Come join us at the Merc (17 E 47th St.) at 7 p.m. for an excursion into the dreamworlds of Jedediah Berry’s The Manual of Detection and Paul Tremblay’s The Little Sleep.
Jedediah Berry was raised in the Hudson Valley region of New York State. His short stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Best New American Voices and Best American Fantasy. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, and works as assistant editor of Small Beer Press.
Paul G. Tremblay is a two-time nominee of the Bram Stoker Award and author of the short speculative fiction collection Compositions for the Young and Old and the hard-boiled/dark fantasy novella City Pier: Above and Below. He served as fiction editor of CHIZINE and as co-editor of Fantasy Magazine, and was also the co-editor of the Fantasy and Bandersnatch anthologies. He lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts.
Thriller writer Alex Berenson will also be joining Jedediah and Paul to read from his latest novel, The Silent Man.
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22 February 2009 | events |
Beatrice @ The Merc: Karan Mahajan & Diana Spechler
On Wednesday, February 11, Beatrice.com’s reading series for debut novelists, hosted by the Mercantile Library, continues with a joint appearance by Karan Mahajan (Family Planning) and Diana Spechler (Who By Fire). The reading starts at 7 p.m. at the Merc’s midtown headquarters (17 E 47th St); the authors will stick around to sign books during a wine reception.
Karan Mahajan was born in 1984 and grew up in New Delhi. A graduate of Stanford University, he now lives in Brooklyn, New York. He was recently interviewed by GalleyCat‘s Jason Boog.
Diana Spechler’s fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train Stories, Moment, Lilith, and elsewhere. She received her MFA degree from the University of Montana and was a Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University. She lives in New York City, where she is at work on her second novel.
AND: You’ll want to keep February 25 free for “mystery night” at the Merc, as we welcome Jedediah Berry and Paul Tremblay, with a special appearance by Alex Berenson.
6 February 2009 | events |
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