EVENT: Ballyhoo at Think, Part II

If you’re in the New York City area join us this Wednesday for part two of the Ballyhoo Stories readings at Think Coffee. Wednesday will feature Charles Antin, Kate Daloz, Stephanie Dickinson, and Lara Tupper, author of A Thousand and One Nights (Harcourt, 2007). Come out and enjoy a night of contemporary fiction with a cup of organic, free-trade coffee or tea. Think Coffee, 248 Mercer Street (between 3rd and 4th Streets). February 21 at 8 PM.

Charles Antin: Charles H. Antin was raised in Boston, MA, but currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. He has stories published or forthcoming in Alimentum Journal, Rosebud, and Glimmer Train, where he won the Winter 05/06 Award for Very Short Fiction for “Fat Cooling,” now being adapted for the screen. He was a finalist in the 2006 University of Louisville Italo Calvino Competition for Fabulist Short Fiction. His story “The Landlord and Jeanne Hébuterne” can be found in the upcoming “Sin & Redemption” issue of Ballyhoo Stories.

Kate Daloz: Kate Daloz was born in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. Her work has appeared in Bust Magazine and the online journal Salt. She teaches adult literacy classes in Queens and lives in Brooklyn. Her story “The Price in the Picture” can be found in Issue 1: “Portraits & Snapshots” of Ballyhoo Stories.

STEPHANIE DICKINSON is a native Iowan who now lives in New York City. Her fiction has appeared in Water~Stone Review, Mudfish, Portland Review, Green Mountains Review, New York Stories, Columbia Review, Chelsea, Ontario Review, Feminist Studies, among others. Along with Rob Cook she coedits the literary journal Skidrow Penthouse. Half Girl, her first novel, will be published this year by Spuyten Duyvil. She received a 2006 fellowship in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her story “Goatsuckers” can be found in the upcoming “Sin & Redemption” issue of Ballyhoo Stories.

Lara Tupper: Lara Tupper, a former lounge singer, has performed in Thailand, Japan, China, and the United Arab Emirates. She currently teaches writing at Rutgers University and curates the Apocalypse NOW Reading Series in New York City. Her fiction and nonfiction can be read in nidus and the Believer. Her first novel A Thousand and One Nights will be published by Harcourt on February 5, 2007 Her story “Belly Dancing” can be found in Issue 2: “Songs & Cacophony” of Ballyhoo Stories.