apexart :: Reading Series

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READING SERIES  
Over the past year apexart has developed a reading series, giving authors at all stages of their careers the opportunity to read recent work. With events every few months, the Reading Series is a chance to hear from creative minds in the writing community, looking beyond the traditional art world for inspiration and ingenuity.

Sat, Dec 11, 2010: 2-5 pm
Aaron Garretson Fiona Maazel
John Haskell Syreeta McFadden
Tao Lin Emma Straub


Watch videos from previous Readings:
July 2010
March 2010 — Part One
March 2010 — Part Two

Aaron Garretson's short fiction has appeared in Opium Magazine, Night Train, and HermanoCerdo (in translation), among others. He was shortlisted for the Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, and has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

John Haskell is the author of a short-story collection, I am not Jackson Pollock (FSG, 2003) and the novels, American Purgatorio (FSG, 2005) and Out of My Skin (FSG, 2009). His stories and essays have appeared on the radio (The Next Big Thing, Studio 360), in books (The Show You'll Never Forget, Heavy Rotation, All the More Real), and in magazines (A Public Space, n+1, Conjunctions, and McSweeney's). He was awarded a 2009 Guggenheim award, and has taught writing and literature at Columbia, Cal Arts, and the University of Leipzig.

Tao Lin (b. 1983) is the author of six books of fiction and poetry, the most recent of which is Richard Yates (Melville House, 2010). He lives in Brooklyn.

Fiona Maazel is the author of the novel, Last Last Chance (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008). She is a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Honoree for 2008 and winner of the Bard Prize for Fiction in 2009. Her work has appeared in Tin House, The New York Times, The Mississippi Review, The Village Voice, Bomb, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is currently at work on a new novel, Woke Up Lonely.

Syreeta McFadden is a writer and photographer from the dairy state whose motto is ‘forward’. She is the managing editor of Union Station Magazine, an online literary journal. She is a graduate of Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Religion Dispatches, Black Commentator and others. She is currently writing a book of undetermined size and scope.

Emma Straub's short story collection, Other People We Married, will be published in February 2011. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review Daily, 52 Stories, Gargoyle, and many other journals. Emma is at work on a novel about the golden age of Hollywood.


Please join us.
All events are free and open to the public.

apexart's exhibitions and public programs are supported in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Edith C. Blum Foundation, Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, The Greenwich Collection Ltd., The William Talbott Hillman Foundation, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts.

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