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Jerry Stahl is the author of the narcotic memoir Permanent Midnight, I, Fatty, Perv-ALove Story and Plainclothes Naked. He has written extensively for film and television. His much-anthologized fiction and journalism have appeared in Esquire, Details, Playboy, Black Book, LA Weekly, and Tin House. He lives in Los Angeles California. He reads from his novel: Pain Killers
“Jerry Stahl should either get the Pulitzer Prize or be shot down in the street like a dog.” Anthony Bourdain
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Jeffrey Rotter holds an MFA from Hunter College where he studied under Peter Carey, Colson Whitehead and Colum McCann. He was awarded the Hertog fellowship to perform research for novelist and journalist Jennifer Egan. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and young son. The Unknown Knowns is his first novel.
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Jesse Ball is the author of Samedi the Deafness which was shortlisted for the 2007 Believer Book Award. He won the Plimpton Prize in 2008 for his novella, The Early Deaths of Lubck, Brennan, Harp & Carr. His verse has appeared in the Best American Poetry 2006. He is an assistant professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He reads from his novel: The Way Through Doors
“ Everything in the pages of this novel may be in doubt, but Jesse Ball’s gifts as a writer are real.” NY Times

About the Series: KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction

The KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction showcases the finest in contemporary fiction from new and emerging writers.

Suzanne Dottino/fiction curator,