Freerange Nonfiction

2010

JANUARY

Wednesday, January 6th @ NYC’s Cornelia Street Cafe  6:00 p.m.

Featuring: Ben Yagoda, author of the recent book, “Memoir: A History” (Riverhead Hardcover ‘09).

FEBRUARY

Wednesday, February 3rd @ NYC’s Cornelia Street Cafe 6:00 p.m.

Featuring: Janice Erlbaum, author of HAVE YOU FOUND HER: A Memoir (Villard, Feb. ‘08), and GIRLBOMB: A Halfway Homeless Memoir (Villard, March ‘06); Kyle Minor, author of In the Devil’s Territory, a collection of short fiction, and co-editor of The Other Chekhov; and Meera Nair, author of VIDEO: Stories, and a forthcoming novel from Pantheon, tentatively titled HARVEST.

MARCH

Wednesday, March 3rd @ NYC’s Cornelia Street Cafe 6:00 p.m.

Featuring: Stephen Elliott, author of the most recent book, The Adderall Diaries, as well as the lovely Diana Spechler, author of the book Who By Fire,

APRIL

Wednesday, April 7th @ NYC’s Cornelia Street Cafe 6:00 p.m.

Featuring: Scott Korb, author of the latest book Life in Year One: What the World Was Like in First-Century Palestine (Riverhead, March 2010); as well as  AJ Jacobs, author of THE KNOW-IT-ALL: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World (Simon & Schuster ‘04), THE YEAR OF LIVING BIBLICALLY: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible (Simon & Schuster ‘07), and THE GUINEA PIG DIARIES: My Life as an Experiment (Simon & Schuster ‘09).

AUTHOR UPDATE:  Stephen Elliott will now be reading at the April 7th installment.

MAY

Wednesday, May 5th @ NYC’s Cornelia Street Cafe 6:00 p.m.

Featuring: Meakin Armstrong. Meakin is a freelance writer, an adjunct professor of English, a former employee at The New Yorker, and the fiction editor at Guernica Magazine. His work has appeared in Noö Journal, elimae, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, Our Stories Literary Journal, InDigest, Sweeeeet, and three fiction anthologies. His nonfiction has been featured in TheAtlantic.com, TheAlanticWire.com, Time Out New York, USAir Magazine, and in the books, New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg and Museyon Guides Film + Travel North America. In 2007, Meakin received a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference scholarship.

JUNE

Wednesday, June 2nd @ NYC’s Cornelia Street Cafe 6:00 p.m.

Featuring: Josh Axelrad. Josh Axelrad played blackjack professionally for five years and poker unprofessionally for one. His memoir, Repeat Until Rich, is now available from  Penguin Press.

AND

Larry Smith, founder of the literary website Smith Magazine and memoir editor Rachel Fershlesiser talk about their most recent book of nonfiction,”It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure“, the latest of their unique ongoing project.

AND

Ben Greenman reading from his latest book WHAT HE’S POISED TO DO. Both a collection of inter-connected stories about love and infidelity and a meditation on the lost art of letter writing, WHAT HE’S POISED TO DO is the latest brilliant book from the eclectic mind of New Yorker editor and rising literary star Ben Greenman. Ben is an editor at the New Yorker and the author of several acclaimed works of fiction, including the novels Please Step Back; Superbad; Superworse; and A Circle Is a Balloon and Compass Both: Stories about Human Love. His fiction, essays, and journalism have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Paris Review, McSweeney’s, and many other publications.  He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.

Harper Perennial is proud to publish WHAT HE’S POISED TO DO on June 15, 2010.

JULY

Wednesday, July 7th @ NYC’s Cornelia Street Cafe  6:00 p.m.

Featuring: A.B. MEYER: A.B. Meyer is the pseudonym of the author of two books, one fiction and one nonfiction, which were published under another name.  Her writing has often appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times.

AND

SUZANNE GUILLETTE, a Manhattan-based writer whose first book, Much to Your Chagrin: A Memoir of Embarrassment, was released on March 10, 2009 by Simon and Schuster.

AND

TEDDY WAYNE, author of the novel Kapitoil (Harper Perennial). He is a graduate of Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis, where he taught fiction and creative nonfiction writing. The recipient of a 2010 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, his work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Time, Esquire, McSweeney’s, the Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. He lives in New York.

AUGUST:

SUMMER VACATION!

SEPTEMBER:

Wednesday, September 1st @ NYC’s Cornelia Street Cafe  6:00 p.m.

Featuring: Rakesh Satyal, the author of the novel BLUE BOY, a gender-bending comedy about a young Indian American boy’s fascination with the Hindu god Krishna. Satyal is an editor at HarperCollins and also sings in a popular cabaret show in New York. He is a graduate of Princeton University and lives in Brooklyn.