Beatrice @ The Merc Returns in September

“Beatrice @ The Merc,” the reading series I curate for the Mercantile Library Center for Fiction, is coming back for at least two nights this fall—and this time around, the emphasis has been placed more strongly on introducing readers to debut novelists.

On Wednesday, September 17, our guests will be Wendy Lee (Happy Family) and Irina Reyn (What Happened to Anna K.), a pairing which is, as Reyn jokingly observed when I told her the news, practically Tolstoyan in its alignment. There will be more to say about each of these books, as well as the two novels that will be featured on October 1, in the weeks to come.

Wendy Lee is a graduate of Stanford University and New York University’s Creative Writing Program. She worked for two years in China as a volunteer English teacher and now lives in New York City. Irina Reyn was born in Moscow, and currently divides her time between Pittsburgh, PA and Brooklyn, NY. She is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.

28 August 2008 | events |

Beatrice.com Presents @ The Merc: Opening Night Photos

Thanks to Jane Kotapish and Ed Park for making the launch of the Beatrice.com reading series at the Mercantile Library Center for Fiction such a fun evening. I’ve got some video from the reading, and as soon as Apple and the makers of The Flip resolve the bugs in the latest version of QuickTime, I’ll upload them for you.

19 April 2008 | events |