Friday, June 17, 2011

AN EVENING OF FICTION IN THE GARDEN

An Evening of Fiction in the Garden
Monday, June 20th, 7:00 p.m.

Gabriel Brownstein, Stacey Donovan, and Paul Witcover will read from their works of fiction in the East Fourth Street Community Garden next Monday at 7:00 p.m., rain or shine. If it rains, pop-up canopies will be set up. Admission is free.

Gabriel Brownstein is an English and creative writing professor in the Department of English at St. John's University. His collection of stories, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in 2002. He also wrote The Man from Beyond, published in 2005, a work of historical fiction about the feud between Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini over spiritualism.

Stacey Donovan is the author of Dive, published in 1994. It was nominated that year for the Lambda Literary Award for Children's/Young Adult. She wrote Who I Am Keeps Happening, a children's book, in 2004. In 2005, she co-authored the four-book fiction series Zalman King's Red Shoe Diaries.

Paul Witcover has written Everland and Other Stories (2009), Asylum (2006) Tumbling After (2005), Waking Beauty (1997), and Zora Neale Hurston (1991) and co-written "the gonzo-feminist comic Anima for DC Comics." One of the stories in Everland was nominated for the Nebula award. Mr. Witcover also served as the curator of the New York Review of Science Fiction reading series.

The garden is on E. 4th Street, between Fort Hamilton Parkway and Caton Avenue.