Non-Fiction: Gabriel Cohen and Trey Ellis

Gabriel Cohen (Storms Can't Hurt the Sky) + Trey Ellis (Bedtime Stories: Adventures in the Land of Single-Fatherhood) read from their work.

GABRIEL COHEN runs the Sundays at Sunny's Reading Series in Red Hook, Brooklyn. His debut novel Red Hook was nominated for the Edgar award for Best First Novel, and he is also the author of the novels The Graving Dock and Boombox. He has written for The New York Times and Time Out New York, and taught writing at New York University. He will read from his newest book, Storms Can't Hurt the Sky: A Buddhist Path Through Divorce. A confirmed skeptic, writer Gabriel Cohen never thought he'd find himself embracing Buddhism. But when his marriage fell apart, he discovered that its insights were surprisingly relevant and useful; they offered him a positive path through anger, resentment, loss, and grief. Learn more at www.gabrielcohenbooks.com

TREY ELLIS is a novelist (Platitudes, Home Repairs, Right Here, Right Now), Emmy and PEN nominated screenwriter, blogger on the Huffington Post, NPR commentator and Assistant Professor of Screenwriting in the MFA program at Columbia.  He will read from his most recent book, Bedtime Stories: Adventures in the Land of Single-Fatherhood, which charts a period in his life when his partner of twelve years, wife of eight, suddenly decides to leave him and their then three-year-old daughter and eight-month-old son. His once storybook romance and jet-setting life with a famous beauty (and novelist herself) was instantly blown to bits. Check out this excerpt in Salon: http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/02/07/trey_ellis/

The KGB Nonfiction Reading Series is the city's premier outlet for the most talented contemporary nonfiction writers working today. Hosted by Kelly McMasters(www.kellymcmasters.com), books are provided by Mobile Libris.