KGB Bar

Colette Inez is a highly-praised Manhattan author, often a prizewinner, with nine books of poetry to date, the latest Spinoza Doesn’t Come Here Anymore, in 2004. University of Wisconsin Press brought out her memoir The Secret of M. Dulong in ‘05 . Her work has appeared in dozens of magazines including Ploughshares and Southern Review, and been included in Pushcart and other anthologies. She’s won many major grants, including the Guggenheim. Formerly a visiting professor at Cornell, Bucknell, and elsewhere, Inez now teaches in Columbia University’s Undergraduate Writing Program.

John Domini, born in Manhattan and based now in Des Moines, will be reading from his 2008 novel A Tomb on the Periphery, just nominated for the National Book Award. He has two earlier novels, including last year’s, Earthquake I.D., which he featured in his reading at KGB last year. He has won awards in all genres, publishing fiction in Paris Review, Ploughshares, and anthologies—he has two collections of stories—and non-fiction in GQ, The New York Times, and elsewhere, including Italian journals. Alan Cheuse, of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” praised his work as “witty and biting,” and Richard Ford called it “wonderful… a rich feast.” Domini has worked as a visiting writer at many universities, including Harvard and Northwestern, and is currently at Grinnell. Italian publication for Earthquake I.D., also in October, will be through the house that was the first to translate Don DeLillo.  For more information, check out http://www.bookslut.com/features/2008_10_013544.php

Both authors will have books for sale with Mobile Libris.