November 11th's Literary Salon features:
Paula Bomer is the author of the collection, Inside Madeleine (Soho Press, May 2014), and the novel Nine Months (Soho Press, August 2012), which received exuberant reviews inThe Atlantic, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, and elsewhere. Her collection, Baby and Other Stories (Word Riot Press, December 2010), received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, calling it a “lacerating take on marriage and motherhood…not one to share… Show more with the Mommy and Me group,” Kirkus Review deemed it “a worthy, if challenging, entry into the genre of transgressional fiction,” and O Magazine referred to it as a “brilliant, brutally raw debut.” She also is the publisher of Sententia Books and edits Sententia: The Literary Journal.
Vica Miller is a native of St. Petersburg (Russia) and a New Yorker for over two decades. She is the author of the debut novel, Inga’s Zigzags, and the founder of the Vica Miller Literary Salons, a chamber reading series held at select NYC art galleries, featuring both published and unpublished authors. She has written for Vogue Russia,Internet, Matador and Tennis Week. Her short stories have appeared in The Jet Fuel Review, Asymptote, The Linnet’s Wings and Thrice Fiction literary journals. She has also published a book of poems, and is currently at work on her second novel, The Shadow of a Blue Doll.
Jonathan Papernick is the author the story collections There Is No Other and The Ascent of Eli Israe l. His work has appeared in Night Train, Exile: The Literary Quarterly, Nerve, Folio, Failbetter, The Drum, Confrontation, The Reading Room and Post Road as well as numerous anthologies. He is currently at work on his third collection of stories Gallery of the Disappeared Men and is revising a novel about a con man who sells the Brooklyn Bridge. He recently released a limited-edition mini-collection of erotic stories entitled XYXX . His novel The Book of Stone will be published by Fig Tree Books in 2015. He is Senior Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College in Boston.
Amy Sohn is the author of the novels The Actress, Motherland, Prospect Park West, My Old Man, and Run Catch Kiss. She has written for The New York Times, Slate, Details, Harper’s Bazaar, and many other publications, and penned columns for The New York Press and The New York Post. She was a contributing editor to New York Magazine for six years, where she wrote the columns “The Naked City,” “Mating,” and “Breeding.” She has written screenplays and television pilots, and also co-created, wrote, and starred in one of the first shows on the Oxygen network, Avenue Amy. This is her second appearance at Pen Parentis.
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Transportation info: Take the 2/3/4/5/J/M to Wall Street. The Salon takes place in the soaring lobby of the Andaz Hotel, at 75 Wall Street.
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Pen Parentis, Ltd, is a New York City-based nonprofit literary organization that provides resources to authors who are also parents, to help them stay on creative track after starting a family.
Pen Parentis Literary Salons are made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. They are also funded in part by The Fund for Creative Communities with public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and by a generous one-time grant from the Sustainable Arts Foundation in California.
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What: Pen Parentis Literary Salon: Risqué Words, with Paula Bomer, Vica Miller, Jonathan Papernick, and Amy Sohn.
Where: ANDAZ Wall Street
75 Wall Street, NYC 10005
(enter on Water or on Pearl)
When: Tuesday, November 11 th at 7:00PM
How: Any train to Wall Street (2/3/4/5/J/M)
Admission: Free. Open to the public. Must be 21+
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