Selected Past Readings

Ditmas Writing Workshops Faculty Reading and Get-Together
December 8, 2015, 7pm, KETTLE AND THREAD, 1219 Church Avenue, Brooklyn

Franklin Park Reading Series: Season Finale with Jamie Iredell and Ryan Britt
December 14, 2015, 8pm, FRANKLIN PARK, 618 St. Johns Place, Crown Heights, Brooklyn

Trumpet Fiction Series with Paula Bomer and Sara Lippmann
October 10th, 2015, 7pm, KGB Bar, NYC

Brooklyn Writers Space Reading Series
April 26, 2014, 7pm, Bookcourt, Brooklyn

Lit at Lark Reading Series with Shya Scanlon and Jessica Francis Kane
December 15th, 2013, 5pm, Lark Cafe, Brooklyn

Ditmas Park Fiction Reading
September 10th, 2013, 8pm, Lark Cafe, Brooklyn

How I Learned the Language of Love
September 25th, 2013, 8pm, Union Hall, Brooklyn

Sunday Salons: with Josh Henkin and Jen Michalski
May 19, 2013, Seventh Street Small Stage at Jimmy’s-43 East 7th Street between 2nd/3rd Ave downstairs

First Person Plural Reading Series: with Kadijah Queen, Jericho Brown, the arts collective “eteam” and DJ Lady DM
April 1, 2013, Shrine in Harlem.

Rutgers Writers Lunchtime Reading: with Caridad Svich (author of Blasted Heavens)
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013, 12:30pm, Plangere Writing Center, Murray Hall, Rm 302, 510 George St, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

NYU Happy Hour Fiction Reading: with A. M. Homes (author of May We Be Forgiven)
2012, 5 p.m., at Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues

NYU Happy Hour Fiction Reading: with Susanna Kaysen (author of Girl, Interrupted)
September 16th, 2011, 5 p.m., at Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues

 Open City Pete’s Candy Store Reading: with Thomas Beller (Editor/Co-Founder of Open City Magazine and Books)
April 28, 2011, 7:30 p.m., at Pete’s Candy Store, 709 Lorimer Street, Brooklyn, NY

How I Learned Reading Series – How I Learned it’s Basically All My Parents’ Fault
May 26, 2010, 8 p.m., at Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street, New York, NY

Open City: launch for Rachel Sherman’s novel Living Room
October 28, 2009, 7 p.m., at KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street, New York, NY

Reading for Mixer at Cakeshop, with Deb Olin Unferth
May 18, 2007, at Cake Shop, 152 Ludlow, New York, NY

Strange Courage: First Books, at the Seventh Annual Juniper Festival 
April 27-28, 2007, at University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA

Q & A with Joanna Yas of Open City
November 3, 2006, at The New School of Social Research, New York, NY

Reading with Ben Fountain
October 11, 2006, 7:30 p.m., at Newtonville Bookstore, Newton, MA

The Frank O’Connor Short Story Award
September 20-25, 2006, in Cork, Ireland

KGB Sunday Fiction Reading Series
September 17, 7 p.m., at KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th Street, New York, NY

Readings at the Writer’s Voice
September 15, 2006, 8 p.m., at West Side YMCA, 5 West 63rd Street, New York, NY

Reading/Signing
July 13, 2006, 8 p.m., at Book Revue, 313 New York Avenue, Huntington, NY

Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood Reading with Bryan Charles and Greg Purcell
May 31, 2006, 7 p.m., at KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street, New York, NY

Reading/Signing at The Books & Brews Series, with Robert Hill
May 30, 2006, 7:30 p.m., at Newtonville Books, 296 Walnut Street, Newton, MA

Reading/Signing
May 29, 2006, 7 p.m., at Essentials, 88 Main Street, Northampton, MA

Reading/Signing
May 25, 2006 at City Lights, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA

Reading, hosted by Kitchen Sink Magazine
May 24, 2006, 7:30 p.m., at Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA

Reading with Peter Rock
May 22, 2006, 7:30 p.m., at Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Portland, OR

Reading/Signing
May 21, 2006, 4 p.m., at Elliott Bay Book Co., 101 South Main Street, Seattle, Washington

Reading with Sam Lipsyte
May 18, 2006, 7:30 p.m., at Pete’s Candy Store, 709 Lorimer Street, Brooklyn, NY

Author/Editor Discussion with Joanna Yas
May 17, 2006, 7 p.m., at McNally Robinson Booksellers, 50 Prince Street, New York, NY

Reading/Discussion in Writer’s Voice Visiting Author Series
May 12, 2006, 8 p.m., at The George Washington Lounge, 5 West 63rd Street New York, NY

Reading/Signing
May 11. 8 p.m., at Book Revue, 313 New York Avenue, Huntington, NY

Reading/Signing
May 1, 7:30 PM, at Barnes & Noble, Greenwich Village, 396 Avenue of the Americas (corner of Eighth Street), New York, NY

Open City Reading at the Nova Art Fair, with Thomas Beller 
April 28, 2006 at 7:00 p.m., at Ann Sather (restaurant), Atrium Room, 929 West Belmont, Chicago, IL