International Readings at Harbourfront - Howard Jacobson, Phil LaMarche, Colum McCann, Kevin Sessums April 11, 2007

Hear Howard Jacobson, Phil LaMarche, Colum McCann and Kevin Sessums read from their latest works. Event hosted by Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall.

Howard Jacobson
Howard Jacobson is the author of seven novels and four works of non-fiction. He won the Everyman Wodehouse Award for comic writing in 1999 for The Mighty Walzer.

Phil LaMarche
Phil LaMarche was a writing fellow in the Syracuse University graduate creative writing program. His story In the Tradition of My Family, published in the spring 2005 edition of Ninth Letter and the 2005 Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize Stories anthology, has been made into a film by orLater Productions. He lives in central New York state.

Colum McCann
Colum McCann’s Zoli is a haunting novel of exile, belonging, and survival, based loosely on the life of the Romani poet Papsuza. The author of the internationally bestselling This Side of Brightness and Dancer, McCann was recently inducted into the Hennessy Hall of Fame for Irish Literature.

Kevin Sessums
Kevin Sessums is currently a contributing editor at Allure magazine after spending fourteen years at Vanity Fair in that same capacity.

American Youth
American Youth is a controlled, essential, and powerful tale of a teenager in southern New England who is confronted by a terrible moral dilemma following a firearms accident in his home.

Kalooki Nights
Kalooki Nights spans the decades between WWII and present day. Told from the perspective of Max Glickman, a Jewish cartoonist, Glickman paradoxically comes to an understanding of the Holocaust through a friend who has committed a nightmarish crime.

Mississippi Sissy
Praised by writers such as Michael Cunningham and Dominick Dunne, Kevin Sessums’s memoir recounts the Allure and Vanity Fair journalist’s quirky childhood, and the tragedy he witnessed that propelled him to become a writer in New York City.

Zoli
Zoli, is a haunting tale of exile, belonging, and survival, based loosely on the life of the Romani poet Papsuza. Zoli Novotna, a young woman raised in the traveling Gypsy tradition in Czechoslovakia, is a poet by accident as much as desire.

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