Stephen Elliott (THE ADDERALL DIARIES) + Said Sayrafiezadeh (WHEN SKATEBOARDS WILL BE FREE) + Rachel Sontag (HOUSE RULES) read at KGB Nonfiction.
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s writing has appeared in Granta, the Paris Review, and Open City. He lives in New York. He will be reading from his first book, When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood, about his childhood as the son of an Iranian father and Jewish-American mother.
Rachel Sontag was born and raised in Evanston, Illinois. She received her MFA in creative writing from The New School. She lives in New York City and will be reading from her first book, House Rules: A Memoir.
Stephen Elliott founded the Progressive Reading Series which raises money through literary events for progressive candidates and is the editor of The Rumpus.net. He is the author of seven books including the novel Happy Baby, and will be reading from his new true crime memoir The Adderall Diaries.