Chris Adrian

OFFSITE EVENT: Fort Greene Park Martyr’s Monument Saturday, August 24, 2:00 PM Fort Greene Park Literary Festival! Featuring readings by Writers Foundry faculty members Chris Adrian, Timothy Small, and Jackson Taylor, Greenlight poet Angel Nafis, and young writers from the New York Writers Coalition workshops Hosted by Laurie Cumbo After party at Greenlight Greenlight Bookstore is honored to partner with the New York Writers Coalition to present the 9th annual Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival! This year’s free outdoor reading features young writers (6-18 year olds) reading alongside faculty writers from the newly formed The Writers Foundry at St. Joseph’s College and other up-and-coming Brooklyn-based poets. The Masters of Ceremonies will be Laurie Cumbo, former director and founder of the acclaimed Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA). This exciting event brings several generations of writers together to build on the literary traditions of the neighborhoods surrounding beautiful Fort Greene Park. Afterwards, the public is invited to Greenlight Bookstore for an after-party and time to mingle with the day’s fabulous readers.

Location: Street: 686 Fulton Street City: Brooklyn, Province: New York Postal Code: 11217 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Chris Adrian , A Better Angel: Stories.

PEN New EnglandReadings at the Hotel MarloweChris Adrian is the author of two novels. Gob's Grief and The Childrens Hospital, and a collection of short stories, A Better Angel. His fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Esquire, and McSweeney's. He is a student at Harvard Divinity School, and recently began training as a fellow in pediatric hematology-oncology at the University of California, San Francisco Please note: this is an off-site event to be held at the Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge, MA. Directions to the Hotel Marlowe. For info or questions, contact: Emily Hiestand, / 617-497-1225. About PEN New England PEN New England is an organization of writers and all those who love the written word. Our mission is to advance the cause of literature in New England and defend freedom of expression everywhere. PEN New England is one of five regional branches of PEN American Center, and part of International PEN, the oldest human rights organization in the world, and also the oldest international literary organization. PEN NE is honored to collaborate with the Marlowe Hotel and Porter Square Books to produce the PEN-Marlowe Reading Series, now in its fourth year. The monthly reading series is programmed by two PEN NE board members and award-winning authors: fiction writer, Edith Pearlman, and essayist/photographer, Emily Hiestand. For more information, visit the PEN New England website. (booksense)… (més)

Chris Adrian , A Better Angel: Stories.

"Adrian, himself a pediatrician and seminary student, is a lucid, brilliant fortune-teller. He unveils our demons, who, in the wake of their visitations upon these children, reveal something you can only call the face of God."Tom Chiarella Esquire

"Abrasive, accusatory, despairing and, more than often enough, quite unforgettable fiction."Kirkus Reviews

Chris Adrian is the author of Gob's Grief
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The Children's Hospital. A former student at the Harvard Divinity school and pediatrician Boston Children's Hospital, he is now pursuing a medical fellowship at UCSF in San Francisco. (booksense)… (més)