{"id":939,"date":"2006-01-19T19:03:25","date_gmt":"2006-01-19T23:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2006\/01\/19\/queens-writers-represent\/"},"modified":"2006-01-19T19:03:25","modified_gmt":"2006-01-19T23:03:25","slug":"queens-writers-represent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2006\/01\/19\/queens-writers-represent\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens Writers Represent!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday, January 22st, at 3 p.m., I&#8217;ll be hosting a literary event at the <a href=\"http:\/\/licbar.com\/lichome.html\">L.I.C. bar in Long Island City<\/a> (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&#8217;m a local, too!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dermansky.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/dermansky.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"122\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/marcydermansky.com\">Marcy Dermansky<\/a> is a MacDowell Fellow who has won the Smallmouth Press Andre Dubus Novella Award and the <i>Story Magazine<\/i> Carson McCullers short story prize. Her stories have been published in numerous literary journals, including <i>McSweeneys<\/i>, <i>The Alaska Quarterly Review<\/i>, and <i>The Indiana Review<\/i>. She is a film critic for About.com. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/006075978X\"><i>Twins<\/i><\/a> is her debut novel, but she&#8217;s not an identical twin.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tmccarthy.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/tmccarthy.jpg\" width=\"94\" height=\"140\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/archives\/001818.html\">Tara McCarthy<\/a> wrote the memoir <i>Been There, Haven&#8217;t Done That<\/i> back in the &#8217;90s; her recently published novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/1416503242\"><i>Love Will Tear Us Apart<\/i><\/a>, is about conjoined twins who are also pop stars. Tara&#8217;s work has appeared in magazines including <i>Seventeen<\/i> and <i>Good Housekeeping<\/i>, and on websites including <i>Killing the Buddha<\/i> and <i>Mr. Beller&#8217;s Neighborhood<\/i>. Her novel for teens, <i>The Pursuit of Happiness<\/i>, is due out in March from MTV Books. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday, January 22st, at 3 p.m., I&#8217;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&#8217;m a local, too! Marcy Dermansky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}