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KGB Bar
Photo by Ellen Wright, 2008.

KGB Bar

85 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003
United States

Web site: http://www.kgbbar.com/

Events: http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar (updated February 14)

Amenities: food/drink

Description: Bar that hosts numerous writers and poets, founded in 1993.

Added by: lampbane.  Contacted: Not contacted.  Venue ID: 2440

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Trumpet Fiction: Thomas Pryor, Gabrielle Seiz, and Mindy Greenstein (March 8 at 7:00pm)
Thomas Pryor is a writer from New York City. His stories paint pictures of his early years in Manhattan's Yorkville neighborhood during the 1960s. Regular visitors to his tales include his teachers, the Sisters of Divine Charity, and various shopkeepers who either liked his company or threw him out of ... (more)their stores. His work has appeared in The Prairie Home Companion and Mr. Beller's Neighborhood. Later this year, Underground Voices Magazine will publish his story, Poultry in Motion.

Gabrielle Selz is a writer who lives out on the East End of Long Island with her awesome son Theo, and her feisty little dog Rufi. She has published non-fiction in the East Hampton Star, MORE Magazine and online at Ducts.org. Her fiction has appeared in Fiction Magazine and Oktoberfest. She grew up in the anything goes art world of the 70's. The memoir piece that she is reading tonight sprung from a desire to understand the ramifications of that free wheeling lifestyle.

Mindy Greenstein is a clinical psychologist and writer. Two of her most recent essays will appear in upcoming issues of MORE and SELF, and a third will appear in Mindy Lewis's anthology DIRT: Writer on the Gritty Truth of Keeping House, which is being published by Seal Press in 2009. A number of her essays have appeared in ducts, and two were short-listed for the William Faulkner William Wisdom Creative Writing Award. Mindy lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.
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Keith Gessen (March 9 at 7:00pm)
Keith Gessen reads from All the Sad Young Literary Men.
Joshua Aaron Cohen was born in New Jersey in 1980. He is the author of a collection of stories, The Quorum (2005); a book on the Hebrew alphabet, Aleph-Bet: An Alphabet for the Perplexed (illustrated by Michael Hafftka, 2007); and two novels, the "cult classic" (Library Journal) Cadenza for the Schneidermann ... (more)Violin Concerto (2007), and A Heaven of Others (2008). A literary critic for The Forward, Cohen lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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Best American Erotic Poems (March 10 at 7:00pm)
Marc Cohen, Janice Erlbaum, Jennifer L. Knox, Ross Martin, Cate Marvin, Noah Michelson, Rachel Shukert, Maggie Wells, and editor David Lehman
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Fortune Cookies + Bliss Night! (March 11 at 7:00pm)
Eric Weiner discusses The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World.; Jennifer 8. Lee discusses The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food.
Eric Weiner spent a decade as a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio. He’s been based in New Delhi, Jerusalem, and Tokyo, and has reported from more than thirty countries. Weiner is a former reporter for the New York Times and a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. His commentary ... (more)has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Slate, and The New Republic. He lives in Miami, Florida and can be reached at ericweinerbooks.com.

Jennifer 8. Lee, the daughter of Chinese immigrants and a fluent speaker of Mandarin Chinese herself, grew up eating her mother's authentic Chinese food in her family's New York City kitchen before graduating from Harvard in 1999 with a degree in Applied Mathematics and economics and studying at Beijing University. At the age of 24, she was hired by the New York Times, where she is a metro reporter and has written a variety of stories on culture, poverty, and technology.
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Behind The Book: Lydia Millet, Abha Dawesar, and Adam Mansbach (March 13 at 7:00pm)
Join us on Thursday, March 13 from 7:00 to 9:00 at KGB Bar, when Behind the Book hosts another evening of free readings by exceptional writers: Lydia Millet, Abha Dawesar, and Adam Mansbach.
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NYU Emerging Writers Series: Ilya Kaminsky, Mark Lawley, Brian Kalkbrenner, Saloni Meghani, and Ronnie Yates (March 14 at 7:00pm)
Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union in 1977, and arrived to the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the American government. Ilya is the author of Dancing In Odessa (TupeloPress, 2004) which won the Whiting Writer's Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' ... (more)Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, the Ruth Lilly Fellowship given annually by Poetry magazine, and was also named Best Poetry Book of the Year 2004 by ForeWord Magazine.

After graduating from Dartmouth College, Mark Lawley worked in his mom's stripclub, in a bookstore, in a childcare center, and interned at several magazines. He is a first-year MFA student at NYU, teaches creative writing at Goldwater Hospital, and drives a mobile soup kitchen in Hunt's Point and the South Bronx for Coalition for the Homeless. His fiction has won the Grogan Hardy Prize in Literature and an honorable mention from Zoetrope: All-Story's 2006 Short Story Contest. He has recently finished a novel, entitled Strip Club of God, about the meth labs and inter-strip club warfare in an Oklahoma military town. He spends his free time dancing the Argentine tango, rock climbing, and teaching . His girlfriend is amazing and can hip throw him really hard.

Brian Kalkbrenner was born and grew up Out West. He is an editor of Soft Targets.

A rental lease in Bombay lasts for 11 months. So since 1990, the yearshe moved to the city from her hometown of Jamshedpur, Saloni Meghani has compulsively changed something major about her life every11 months - job, career, house, city, relationship and, most importantly, her hairstyle. She digs Spider Solitaire.

Ronnie Yates is a poet from Houston, often tardy, always charming.
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Nina Siegel, Warren Adler (March 16 at 7:00pm)
Nina Siegel reads from A Little Trouble With the Facts.; Warren Adler reads from New York Echoes.
Warren Adler is the author of 30 books, including 5 collections of short stories and 25 novels. He is known worldwide for his classic tale of battling spouses, The War of the Roses. His novels have been translated into more than two dozen languages; 10 have been sold or optioned to the movies, also including ... (more)Random Hearts, starring Harrison Ford. Three stories from his collection The Sunset Gang aired as a trilogy on PBS. Adler is a pioneer in electronic publishing and is currently teaching creative writing on Amazon Second Life. In addition he sponsors an annual short story contest; details can be found on his website www.warrenadler.com.
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Aracelis Girmay, Christopher Martin (March 31 at 7:00pm)
Aracelis Girmay.; Christopher Martin.
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Non-Fiction: Pour Your Heart Out V (April 1 at 7:00pm)
KGB Non-fiction presents Pour Your Heart Out V: Unpublished memoirs from really good writers (Rebecca Barry, Kirsten Major and Sarita James). Tuesday, April 1 (really—not joking) at 7PM. FREE!!
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Columbia University Faculty Selects (April 3 at 7:00pm)
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Contemporary Russian Poetry Anthology Reading (April 4 at 7:00pm)
Evgeny Bunimovich was born in 1954 in Moscow. He is the author of seven books of poetry, including Yestestvenniy otbor [NaturalSelection] (Moscow: MIKPRO, 2001), which won the Moscow Prize in Literature and Art, and, most recently, Yezhednevnik [Daily Journal] (Moscow: OGI, 2006). He is a recipient of ... (more)the Order of Academic Palms (France) and President of the Moscow International Festival of Poets.

Elena Fanailova was born in 1962 in the Voronezhskaya region. She is the author of Puteshestvie [Travels] (St. Petersburg: Severo-Zapad —Mitin zhurnal, 1994), S osobym tsinizmom [With Particular Cynicism] (Moscow: NLO, 2000), Transilvaniya bespokoit [Transylvania is Worrisome] (Moscow: OGI, 2002), and Russkaya versiya [Russian Version] (Moscow: Zapasniy Vykhod, 2005).

Yuli Gugolev was born in 1964 in Moscow. He is a translator and the author of two books of poetry: Polnoe. Sobranie sochineniy [Complete Works] (Moscow: OGI, 2000) and Komandirovochnye predpisaniya [Official Instructions] (Moscow: Novoe izdatel'stvo, 2006), which won the Moskovskiy schyot Grand Prize.
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Flash Fiction (April 5 at 7:00pm)
Flashers and Acentos present...
2-N-2: New York Writers Say it in 2 Pages or 2 Poems
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Poetry: Nancy Kuhl and Richard Deming (April 7 at 7:00pm)
Nancy Kuhl reads from The Wife of the Left Hand.; Richard Deming reads from Let's Not Call It Consequence.
Nancy Kuhl's first full-length collection of poems, The Wife of the Left Hand, was published in 2007 by Shearsman Books. She is co-editor of Phylum Press, a small poetry publisher (www.phylumpress.com). She is AssociateCurator of the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare book and ... (more)Manuscript Library at Yale University. www.phylumpress.com/nancykuhl.htm

Richard Deming is the author of Let's Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman,2008) and Listening on All Sides: Towards an Emersonian Ethics of Reading (Stanford UP, 2008). His poetry has also appeared in Sulfur, Colorado Review, Indiana Review, Field and Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present. He is a lecturer at Yale University. With Nancy Kuhl he edits Phylum Press.
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Non-Fiction: Gabriel Cohen and Trey Ellis (April 8 at 7:00pm)
Gabriel Cohen reads from Storms Can't Hurt the Sky.; Trey Ellis reads from Bedtime Stories: Adventures in the Land of Single-Fatherhood.
GABRIEL COHEN runs the Sundays at Sunny's Reading Series in Red Hook, Brooklyn. His debut novel Red Hook was nominated for the Edgar award for Best First Novel, and he is also the author of the novels The Graving Dock and Boombox. He will read from his newest book, Storms Can't Hurt the Sky: A Buddhist ... (more)Path Through Divorce.

TREY ELLIS is a novelist (Platitudes, Home Repairs, Right Here, Right Now), Emmy and PEN nominated screenwriter, blogger on the Huffington Post, NPR commentator and Assistant Professor of Screenwriting in the MFA program at Columbia. He will read from his most recent book, Bedtime Stories: Adventures in the Land of Single-Fatherhood, which charts a period in his life when his partner of twelve years, wife of eight, suddenly decides to leave him and their then three-year-old daughter and eight-month-old son.
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Jack O'Connell, Ekaterina Sedia (May 21 at 7:00pm)
Jack O'Connell reads from The Resurrectionist.; Ekaterina Sedia reads from The Secret History of Moscow.
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Terri Windling, Howard Gayton (June 18 at 7:00pm)
Terri Windling reads from The Coyote Road.; Howard Gayton.
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The Digital Plague! (August 20 at 7:00pm)
Jeff Somers reads from The Digital Plague.
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Caitlín R. Kiernan, Benjamin Parzybok (November 19 at 7:00pm)
Caitlín R. Kiernan reads from Daughter Of Hounds.; Benjamin Parzybok reads from Couch.
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Reading for Behind the Book (June 11 at 7:00pm)
Arthur Phillips reads from The Song is You.
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KGB Fantastic Fiction (August 19 at 7:00pm)
Kaaron Warren reads from Slights.
Robert Freeman Wexler and I will read from our recently published books.
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