Harper's Magazine Valentine Reading February 10, 2010

Harper's Magazine Presents Love: A Rebuke, A Valentine’s Day Reading Featuring Colson Whitehead, Heidi Julavits, and Sam Lipsyte

To coincide with St. Valentine’s Day, Harper’s Magazine presents “Love: A Rebuke,” a reading featuring selections from the magazine and new work by Harper’s Magazine contributors Colson Whitehead, Heidi Julavits, and Sam Lipsyte.

WHEN: Wednesday, February 10 at 7:00 P.M.

WHERE: Housing Works Bookstore Café, 126 Crosby Street, New York City

WHO: Sam Lipsyte is the author of Venus Drive, The Subject Steve, Home Land, and The Ask. He teaches at Columbia University.

Heidi Julavits is the author of three novels, including, most recently, The Uses of Enchantment. She is a founding editor of The Believer and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Colson Whitehead is the author of the novels The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and Sag Harbor. He is a recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and a MacArthur Fellowship.

Additional selections will be read by the staff of Harper's Magazine.

HOW: Admission is free. Attendees are asked to consider bringing a book to donate to the store. One hundred percent of the bookstore's profits go to Housing Works, Inc., an organization committed to ending AIDS and homelessness. Live streaming of the program will appear at Livestream.com/harpersmagazine. For more information or to set up interviews with any of the writers, contact Kathy Park Price. This event listing is also at http://harpers.org/PR/events