KGB Bar

Join us Sunday evening for a tribute to Franz Kafka, who’s either the most terrifying author of the twentieth-century or the funniest, depending on who’s reading him.  We’ll have four authors reading from his novels, stories, fragments, and letters, each putting his or her own spin on the work of this enigmatic - or maybe just very deadpan - Prague modernist.
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Matthew Sharpe is the author of the novels Jamestown, The Sleeping Father (translated into nine languages) and Nothing Is Terrible as well as the short-story collection Stories from the Tube. He has taught creative writing at Columbia, Wesleyen University, Bard College. His stories and essays have appeared in Harper’s, Zoetrope, BOMB, McSweeney’s, American Letters & Commentary, Southwest Review, and Teachers & Writers magazine
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Lore Segal has worked as novelist, essayist, translator, and writer of children’s books. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the National Endowments for the Arts, and the Humanities. Her reviews appear in the New York Times Book Review and her stories in the New Yorker. Her story “The Reverse Bug” was included in Best American Short Stories, 1989 and won a prize in Prize Stories 1990, The O.Henry Awards.
Lore Segal’s novels include Other People’s Houses, serialized in The New Yorker and published by Harcourt Brace in 1964, currently available from The New Press, 1994; Lucinella(FSG, 1978); and Her First American, which won an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (Knopf, 1985, The New Press, 1995).
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Lynne Tillman is a novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic. She is is the author of five novels, three collections of short stories, one collection of essays, and two other nonfiction books. t, Her most recent novel, American Genius, A Comedy, was published in 2006 by Soft Skull Press. She was a 2006 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Michael Shelichach is a contributing writer to kgbbarlit.com. He lives in Brooklyn.
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Fiction curator: suzanne dottino - contact: suzanne@kgbbar.com

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,