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Local Author and Educator Zetta Elliot Reads at Franklin Park

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Local educator Zetta Elliot admitted early in her presentation Franklin Park recently that she isn’t quite accustomed to late night readings at bars – usually she is presenting her work earlier in the day as an educator, in schools and libraries. However, she persevered and read an eloquent excerpt from her novel A Wish After Midnight (above), the tale of a young woman in Brooklyn transported back in time to the Civil War era. Watch her performance here.

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July 21, 2010 Author Videos, MultiMedia, Video
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Kaboom Author Matt Gallagher Tells His Story

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Matt Gallagher, author of Kaboom, joined the U.S. Army in 2005 and received a commission in the armored cavalry. Following a fifteen-month deployment in Iraq, Gallagher left the army in 2009. Originally from Reno, Nevada, he now lives in New York City, and was recently a featured reader at the Franklin Park Reading Series.

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June 30, 2010 Author Videos, MultiMedia, Video
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David Goodwillie Reads From American Subversive

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Author David Goodwillie reads from his novel American Subversive at the Franklin Park Reading Series in Crown Heights.

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May 11, 2010 Author Videos, MultiMedia, The Read, Video
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Ryan Britt on the Nuclear Age

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Storyteller Ryan Britt at the Franklin Park Reading Series on April 12, 2010.

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April 21, 2010 Author Videos, MultiMedia, The Read, Video
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Author Mary Gaitskill Goes All Ashley Dupre On Us

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In the video enclosed author Mary Gaitskill reads “The Astral Plane Nail and Waxing Salon” at the Franklin Park Reading Series in Crown Heights. This fictional story about Ashley Dupre and Silda Wall, Elliot Spitzer’s tryst and wife respectively, originally appeared in New York Magazine last fall and deals – intensely – with the dichotomy of Eve and Lilith. The tale features cameos by Elizabeth and John Edwards, Rielle Hunter, Bill and Hillary Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. It’s a long one – three parts – but we’re sure you’ll enjoy the ride.

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April 15, 2010 Author Videos, Classic, MultiMedia, The Read, Video
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Stephen Elliot on Money, Power and the Dot Com Boom

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Stephen Elliott, author of Happy Baby and The Adderall Diaries, reads at the Franklin Park Reading Series in Brooklyn.

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April 1, 2010 Author Videos, MultiMedia, The Read, Video
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Victor LaValle, Author of Big Machine, on Debt

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Victor LaValle is the author of a short-story collection, Slapboxing with Jesus and two novels, The Ecstatic and Big Machine and writes fiction primarily and book reviews for GQ, Essence Magazine, The Fader, and the Washington Post. Here, he reads a short story called Debt.

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March 22, 2010 Author Videos, MultiMedia, The Read, Video

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