In Search of YA Authors for Reading Series Event in May!

Attention authors, fans, and Behind the Book supporters!

As you know, BtB has a reading series at KGB Bar on the second Thursday of every month, where incredible authors read from their newest works.

We are currently looking for Young Adult authors to be featured at our May reading series event on May 9^th, 2013.  Here’s what we’re looking for:

* authors that have a book coming out around May (really any time in the Spring or early Summer)

* and live in the New York City area

* and ideally, write books that are relevant to the students that we work with (take place in NYC or similar urban setting, characters and plot reflect student experiences)

If you fit this description, or you know anyone who does, please email us at Info@BehindtheBook.org or tweet us @Behind_the_Book. Thanks for your help! Don’t forget to mark your calendars for the reading on May 9^th, and happy reading!

Reading away from reading

Those of you that are familiar with Behind the Book’s regular programs and events are likely aware that we run an almost monthly reading series at the cozy KGB bar in the East Village, which in the past year has featured such writers as Joshua Ferris, Colson Whitehead and Pulitzer prize-winner Paul Harding.

This month, we heard excerpts from Jessica Francis Kane‘s debut novel The Report, and Monique Truong‘s new novel Bitter in the Mouth. The former is an imaginative recreation of the Bethnal Green tube tragedy of 1943, while the latter is a lyrical narrative about a woman with a rare form of synesthesia: the ability to taste words.

Guests mingle between readings