Non-Fiction: Pour Your Heart Out V

KGB Non-fiction presents Pour Your Heart Out V: Unpublished memoirs from really good writers (Rebecca Barry, Kirsten Major and Sarita James). Tuesday, April 1 (really—not joking) at 7PM. FREE!!

Rebecca Barry is the author of a novel in stories called Later, at the Bar, which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2007. She is also the author of the blog, "The Main Street Diaries," (http://mainstreetdiaries.blogspot.com) which is about raising small children without putting the out on the curb. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Washington Post Magazine, the New York Times, Real Simple, Hallmark, Travel and Leisure, More, and The Best American Travel Writing. She will be reading from a series of essays she's working on about her family.

Kirsten Major went to high school upstate in Troy, studied ancient Greek in college, and then went to graduate school in Ithaca. She has written a great deal of published and unpublished material, most recently a novel and a musical about the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther. She currently lives in the East Village where she is the youngest resident in her building and the oldest person in every bar. She will be reading from "The Best of Bright Year," a collection non-fiction essays which has been variously described as "brilliant" and "one long Generation X whinge about everything being unfair."

Sarita James was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She received her B.A. from Harvard University, where she was an editor of Harvard South Asian Journal, and her M.B.A. from Oxford University. She has worked for Microsoft Corporation in Seattle, Washington, and for the consulting firm McKinsey & Company wherever they sent her. When she is not writing, Sarita runs a strategy team for Mayor Bloomberg’s administration here in New York. Sarita’s writing has appeared, among other venues, in the “Modern Love” column of the Sunday New York Times. She will be reading a chapter from her book-in-progress Indian in Indiana: Adventures of a Misfit from America’s Heartland.