Fiction: Josh Barkan & Nam Le

Josh Barkan reads from his novel: Blind Speed
Nam Le reads from his collection: The Boat
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Nam Le was born in Vietnam and raised in Australia. He has received the Pushcart Prize, the Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award. His fiction has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, A Public Space, Harvard Review, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007. He divides his time between Australia and the U.S. He reads from his collection: The Boat
"In "The Boat" storms do gather but no one seems ale to respond; violence leads to confusion instead of clarity; love provokes rather than answers old questions, stirring up painful longings. The book journeys across time and space, history and continents. Nam Le looks into our present, and we hear a prophetic voice coming to us from the future. But really this book nails our collective now with an urgency and relevance that feels visionary." Charles D'Ambrosio
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Josh Barkan was awarded a literary fellowship from the NEA in 2006. He has taught writing at Harvard, NYU, and Boston University and is the author of the story collection of Before Hiroshima. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Yale, he lives in NYC and reads from his novel:
Blind Speed
"Blind Speed is a crazy-assed adventure of a novel, one that hilariously explores the serious issues of this era and every other: faith, love, ambition and its discontents, the possibility of spiritual regeneration, not to mention sibling rivalry and where to get a drink late at night in Boston. Josh Karkan has written a book that is whip-smart, but whose central allure resides in its oversized heart. " Steve Almond
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