The Sunset Reading Series brings writers of national renown to Cold Spring, New York.
David Hollander is the author of the novel L.I.E., a finalist for the New York Public Library’s “Young Lions” Award. His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in McSweeney’s, Post Road, The New York Times Magazine, Poets & Writers, The Brooklyn Rail, Swink, Unsaid, The Black Warrior Review, and many other venues less impressive-sounding but equally well-intentioned. His work has been adapted for film and frequently anthologized, most recently in Best American Fantasy 2 and the forthcoming The Official Catalog of the Library of Potential Literature. Hollander teaches in the graduate fiction writing program at Sarah Lawrence College, where he is revered as a God.
Max Watman is the author of Race Day, which was an editors’ choice in the New York Times Book Review. He was the horse racing correspondent for the New York Sun and has written for various publications on books, music, food, and drink. In 2008, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded Max a literary fellowship. His latest book Chasing the White Dog about moonshine was praised by many, including Publishers Weekly and NASCAR legend Junior Johnson. He lives in the Cold Spring.
Erika Wood is the author of the novel The Colorman (Tatra Press) released in 2009. She lives in Cold Spring where she is also an artist, a website designer and the first lady.
Jeffrey Yang is a poet, translator, and an editor at New Directions Publishing. He is the author of the poetry books An Aquarium (winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Poetry Award) and the forthcoming Vanishing-Line, both with Graywolf Press. He has translated Su Shi's East Slope (Ugly Duckling Presse) and a collection of classical Chinese poems called Rhythm 226 (Tioronda Books). An anthology of nature poems from New Directions he edited--Birds, Beasts, and Seas--will be published in Spring 2011; and the new issue of the world literature anthology Two Lines: Some Kind of Beautiful Signal is edited by Natasha Wimmer (fiction) and Yang (poetry).
Jo Ann Beard is the author of a collection of autobiographical essays, The Boys of My Youth, and a forthcoming novel. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Best American Essays, and other magazines and anthologies. She received a Whiting Foundation Award and nonfiction fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Scott Spencer is the author of nine novels, including Endless Love (National Book Award Finalist 1980), Waking the Dead, A Ship Made of Paper (National Book Award Finalist 2003), and Willing. His nonfiction has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, O, Harper's, and The New York Times. He has a new book coming out in September.
Thomas Lux is the author of ten books of poetry including The Cradle Place (Houghton Mifflin, 2004); New and Selected Poems, 1975-1995 (1997), which was a finalist for the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; and Split Horizon (1994), for which he received the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. He has received three National Endowment for the Arts grants and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Jeffrey McDaniel is the author of 4 books of poetry, most recently The Endarkenment from the University of Pittsburgh Press. His previous three books are The Splinter Factory (2002); The Forgiveness Parade (1998); and Alibi School (1995). Individual poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, and many other literary magazines and anthologies.
Amber Tamblyn is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award–nominated actor and poet. She came to fame on the soap opera General Hospital followed by starring roles on the television series Joan of Arcadia and The Unusuals and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Her publications include the collections Free Stallion (2005) and Bang Ditto (2009) and she is the winner of a Borders Choice Award for Breakout Writing.
Aimee Bender is the author of three books: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (1998) which was a NY Times Notable Book, An Invisible Sign of My Own (2000) which was an L.A. Times pick of the year, and Willful Creatures (2005) which was nominated by The Believer as one of the best books of the year. Her short fiction has been published in Granta, GQ, Harper's, Tin House, McSweeney's, The Paris Review, and many more, as well as heard on PRI's This American Life and Selected Shorts. She's received two Pushcart prizes, and was nominated for the TipTree award in 2005.
This program is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program. In Putnam County, the Decentralization Program is administered by the Putnam Arts Council.
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The Sunset Reading Series is pleased to announce the 2010 schedule of readings, all of which take place at the Chapel of Our Lady Restoration on the banks of the Hudson River in Cold Spring, NY.
The Sunset Reading Series is pleased to announce the 2010 schedule of readings, all of which take place at the Chapel of Our Lady Restoration on the banks of the Hudson River in Cold Spring, NY.
| Sunday, September 19th | Local Authors - David Hollander, Erika Wood, Max Watman, Jeffrey Yang | |
| Sunday, October 17th | Jo Ann Beard and Scott Spencer |
David Hollander is the author of the novel L.I.E., a finalist for the New York Public Library’s “Young Lions” Award. His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in McSweeney’s, Post Road, The New York Times Magazine, Poets & Writers, The Brooklyn Rail, Swink, Unsaid, The Black Warrior Review, and many other venues less impressive-sounding but equally well-intentioned. His work has been adapted for film and frequently anthologized, most recently in Best American Fantasy 2 and the forthcoming The Official Catalog of the Library of Potential Literature. Hollander teaches in the graduate fiction writing program at Sarah Lawrence College, where he is revered as a God.
Max Watman is the author of Race Day, which was an editors’ choice in the New York Times Book Review. He was the horse racing correspondent for the New York Sun and has written for various publications on books, music, food, and drink. In 2008, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded Max a literary fellowship. His latest book Chasing the White Dog about moonshine was praised by many, including Publishers Weekly and NASCAR legend Junior Johnson. He lives in the Cold Spring.
Erika Wood is the author of the novel The Colorman (Tatra Press) released in 2009. She lives in Cold Spring where she is also an artist, a website designer and the first lady.
Jeffrey Yang is a poet, translator, and an editor at New Directions Publishing. He is the author of the poetry books An Aquarium (winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Poetry Award) and the forthcoming Vanishing-Line, both with Graywolf Press. He has translated Su Shi's East Slope (Ugly Duckling Presse) and a collection of classical Chinese poems called Rhythm 226 (Tioronda Books). An anthology of nature poems from New Directions he edited--Birds, Beasts, and Seas--will be published in Spring 2011; and the new issue of the world literature anthology Two Lines: Some Kind of Beautiful Signal is edited by Natasha Wimmer (fiction) and Yang (poetry).
Jo Ann Beard is the author of a collection of autobiographical essays, The Boys of My Youth, and a forthcoming novel. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Best American Essays, and other magazines and anthologies. She received a Whiting Foundation Award and nonfiction fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Scott Spencer is the author of nine novels, including Endless Love (National Book Award Finalist 1980), Waking the Dead, A Ship Made of Paper (National Book Award Finalist 2003), and Willing. His nonfiction has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, O, Harper's, and The New York Times. He has a new book coming out in September.
Thomas Lux is the author of ten books of poetry including The Cradle Place (Houghton Mifflin, 2004); New and Selected Poems, 1975-1995 (1997), which was a finalist for the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; and Split Horizon (1994), for which he received the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. He has received three National Endowment for the Arts grants and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Jeffrey McDaniel is the author of 4 books of poetry, most recently The Endarkenment from the University of Pittsburgh Press. His previous three books are The Splinter Factory (2002); The Forgiveness Parade (1998); and Alibi School (1995). Individual poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, and many other literary magazines and anthologies.
Amber Tamblyn is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award–nominated actor and poet. She came to fame on the soap opera General Hospital followed by starring roles on the television series Joan of Arcadia and The Unusuals and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Her publications include the collections Free Stallion (2005) and Bang Ditto (2009) and she is the winner of a Borders Choice Award for Breakout Writing.
Aimee Bender is the author of three books: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (1998) which was a NY Times Notable Book, An Invisible Sign of My Own (2000) which was an L.A. Times pick of the year, and Willful Creatures (2005) which was nominated by The Believer as one of the best books of the year. Her short fiction has been published in Granta, GQ, Harper's, Tin House, McSweeney's, The Paris Review, and many more, as well as heard on PRI's This American Life and Selected Shorts. She's received two Pushcart prizes, and was nominated for the TipTree award in 2005.
This program is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program. In Putnam County, the Decentralization Program is administered by the Putnam Arts Council.
Past Events
