Monday Jul 17, 2017
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Granite Prospect at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Pier 1 Brooklyn Bridge Park
Brooklyn, NY
11201
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Experience two essential female voices while overlooking the iconic New York skyline at our annual Books Beneath the Bridge reading series! This year POWERHOUSE ARENA presents Hannah Tinti and her highly anticipated 2nd novel The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, and Sarah Gerard with her newest essay collection Sunshine State. The outdoor event will feature a reading, followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Sarah Gerard is the author of the essay collection Sunshine State, the novel Binary Star, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Award for First Fiction, and two chapbooks. Her short stories, essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, Granta, Vice, BOMB Magazine, and other journals, as well as anthologies. She’s been supported by fellowships and residencies from Yaddo, Tin House, and PlatteForum. She writes a monthly column on food for Hazlitt and teaches writing in New York City.
Hannah Tinti grew up in Salem, Massachusetts. Her short story collection Animal Crackers was a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her bestselling novel The Good Thief won the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and an American Library Association Alex Award, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Tinti is the co-founder and executive editor of the award-winning literary magazine One Story.
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