Thursday Jul 11, 2024
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
POWERHOUSE Arena
28 Adams Street (Corner of Adams & Water Street across from the Archway)
Brooklyn , NY
11201
About the Event.
Celebrate the launch of the paperback edition of Andrew Lipstein’s The Vegan with readings by New York’s most well-heeled, martini-soaked, suspendered financial writers: Zeke Faux, Carrie Sun, Daniel Lefferts, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, and John Ganz. Come for the hush-hush insider tips, stay for someone using the term “EBITDA.”
About the Author & Readers
Andrew Lipstein is the author of Last Resort (FSG, 2022), a novel “you’ll think about . . . for weeks after you read the last pages” (Los Angeles Times). He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and son.
Carrie Sun was born in China and raised in Michigan. She holds an MFA in creative writing from The New School, and a double BS in math and finance from MIT. She lives in Jersey City with her husband. Private Equity is her first book.
Daniel Lefferts is a writer living in the Hudson Valley. He holds an MFA from Columbia University and has taught writing at Columbia and Rutgers. His debut novel, Ways and Means, was published in February 2024 and was described by the Wall Street Journal as a “wildly entertaining drama of ambition and consequence.”
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is a journalist who writes about the cracks in the nation-state system. She is the author of The Cosmopolites, an investigation into the global market for citizenship, and The Hidden Globe, a tour of the world’s strangest jurisdictions. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and children.
Zeke Faux is an investigative reporter for Bloomberg. His first book, Number Go Up, was an Edgar Award finalist for best true crime and made best book of the year lists from the Washington Post, LA Times, Financial Times and others. He’s a winner of the Gerald Loeb award and the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel award, and a National Magazine Award finalist
John Ganz writes the widely acclaimed Unpopular Front newsletter for Substack. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Artforum, the New Statesman, and other publications.