New York Stories: Attenberg + Erlbaum February 27, 2008

Join us for an assuredly memorable evening with authors Jami Attenberg and Janice Erlbaum, reading from brand new books that are both set in the city right now. Also featuring a "Battle of the Bad Reviews"! 7PM, FREE.

Jami Attenberg has written about sex, technology, design, graphic novels, books, television, and urban life for Jane, Print, Nylon, Radar, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, Salon, Plenty, Nextbook, Time Out NY, eWeek, and others. Her fiction has been published by Nerve, Pindeldyboz, Spork, and Bullfight Review. She recently appeared in the anthologies Future Misbehavior and Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone. Her debut collection of stories, INSTANT LOVE, was published by Crown/Shaye Areheart Books in June 2006. A novel, THE KEPT MAN was published by Riverhead Books in January 2008. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Janice Erlbaum is the author of GIRLBOMB: A Halfway Homeless Memoir (Villard, March '06), and HAVE YOU FOUND HER: A Memoir (Villard, Feb. '08). She was a contributor to BUST magazine from 1994 through 2007. She lives in her native New York City with her domestic partner, Bill Scurry, and their three cats.

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