Open City : Leni Zumas and Christine Schutt

The Open City KGB Reading Series presents

LENI ZUMAS, giving the very first reading to celebrate the publication of her brand-new story collection, FAREWELL NAVIGATOR (Open City Books)and CHRISTINE SCHUTT, reading from her new novel, ALL SOULS

CHRISTINE SCHUTT is the author of A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer (Northwestern, 2005) the novel Florida (Northwestern, 2004), a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award for Fiction, and Nightwork (Knopf, 1996), a collection of short stories chosen by poet John Ashbery as the best book of 1996 for the Times Literary Supplement. Her most recent novel, ALL SOULS, will be published in June by Harcourt.

LENI ZUMAS's debut story collection FAREWELL NAVIGATOR is Open City Books' latest release (paperback original, May 28). Her fiction has recently appeared in Open City, Quarterly West, and New Orleans Review. She is a winner of the AWP Intro Journals Award for Short Fiction. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst MFA program, she teaches writing at Hunter College and plays drums in the Brooklyn post-punk band S-S-S-Spectres.

"Attention unrequited lovers, sisters of suicidal brothers, children of the legally blind: you are not alone. Leni Zumas understands your quiet agony and describes it with such a wry, unflinching familiarity that even the gory details ring true. If darkness has ever been your friend, your story is inhere." -Miranda July