Every second Monday the Franklin Park Reading Series features another rising star and new talent, and October was no exception. The following clips – it’s a long story, there are two – feature Jennifer Egan reading from her latest novel A Visit from the Goon Squad.
BrooklynTheBorough.com is excited to feature the work of graphic novelist and native Brooklynite Martin Lemelman. Extended through November, he will bring us the final two chapters from his return to Brooklyn series, original work based on his latest novel Two Cents Plain, released in August on Bloomsbury.
Shelly Oria’s first contribution is Documentation, about a series of kisses.
Shelly Oria is our guest contributor this month. She was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Israel. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Shelly’s fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, Quarterly West, cream city review, and fivechapters among other places. She curates the series Sweet! Actors Reading Writers in the East Village, teaches fiction at the Gotham Writers’ Workshop, and is the co-producer of Literary Death Match Tel Aviv. Shelly was awarded the 2008 Indiana Review Fiction Prize for her story “New York 1, Tel Aviv 0,” and is currently completing her first story collection, which carries the same title. She is represented by Janklow & Nesbit Associates in New York. Watch her reading at the Franklin Park Reading Series in October 2010.
BrooklynTheBorough.com is excited to feature the work of graphic novelist and native Brooklynite Martin Lemelman. Throughout October he will bring us new chapters from his Brooklyn life, original work based on his latest novel Two Cents Plain, released in August on Bloomsbury. Here is the fourth chapter.
BrooklynTheBorough.com is excited to feature the work of graphic novelist and native Brooklynite Martin Lemelman. Throughout October he will bring us new chapters from his Brooklyn life, original work based on his latest novel Two Cents Plain, released in August on Bloomsbury. Here is the third chapter.
BrooklynTheBorough.com is excited to feature the work of graphic novelist and native Brooklynite Martin Lemelman. Throughout October he will bring us new chapters from his Brooklyn life, original work based on his latest novel Two Cents Plain, released in August on Bloomsbury. Here is the second chapter.
