Istanbul Literary Review

Fiction Reading

Jamie Cat Callan, Eric Darton, Thaddeus Rutkowski and Susan Tepper

Jamie Cat Callan's work has appeared in The New York Times Modern Love column, The Missouri Review, Story, Istanbul Literary Review and other publications. She is the creator of The Writers Toolbox from Chronicle Books. Her latest non-fictionbook, French Women Don't Sleep Alone is forthcoming from Kensington.

Eric Darton is the author of the novel Free City (WW Norton 1996) and the New York Times bestseller Divided We Stand (Basic Books), a cultural history of the WorldT rade Center published in 1999. He is presently at work on Born Witness, a chronicle of these amazing times, which he sends out to subscribers in weekly installments.

Thaddeus Rutkowski grew up in central Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Cornell University and the Johns Hopkins University. He is author of the novels Tetched and Roughhouse. Both books were finalists for an Asian American Literary Award. He teaches fiction writing at the West Side YMCA in Manhattan.

Susan Tepper's stories, poems and essays have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Salt Hill, Green Mountains Review, Boston Review, Istanbul Literary Review and elsewhere. Cervena Barva Press published her chapbook Blue Edge in 2006. Her story collection and a full-length book of poems will be released by that samepress later this year.