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LIC Reading Series

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LIC Reading Series (est. April 2015) hosts three critically-acclaimed writers for readings and a panel discussion once a month at the historic LIC Bar in Queens. Hosted by Catherine LaSota.
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PANEL DISCUSSION: Chelsea Hodson, Allie Rowbottom, and Amanda Stern

Where is all of the literary love for Queens? It’s right here at LIC Reading Series. Join them each week for stories, readings, and discussions with acclaimed writers, recorded with a live audience in the cozy carriage house of a classic pub in Long Island City, Queens, New York, and hosted by founder Catherine LaSota. This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on July 10, 2018, with Chelsea Hodson (Tonight I’m Someone Else), Allie Rowbotto...

Jan 30, 202041 min

READING: Chelsea Hodson, Allie Rowbottom, and Amanda Stern

Where is all of the literary love for Queens? It’s right here at LIC Reading Series. Join them each week for stories, readings, and discussions with acclaimed writers, recorded with a live audience in the cozy carriage house of a classic pub in Long Island City, Queens, New York, and hosted by founder Catherine LaSota. This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on July 10, 2018, with Chelsea Hodson (Tonight I’m Someone Else), Allie Rowbotto...

Jan 28, 202039 min

PANEL DISCUSSION: Chaya Babu, YZ Chin, Bridgett Davis

This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on May 8, 2018, in collaboration with Feminist Press, with Chaya Babu (Go Home!), YZ Chin (Though I Get Home), and Bridgett Davis (The World According to Fannie Davis). About the Readers: CHAYA BABU is a Brooklyn-based writer, journalist, educator, and healer. Her work has been featured in The Margins, Open City, BuzzFeed, CNN, The Feminist Wire, Huffington Post, and more. She is completing a creat...

Jan 23, 202038 min

READING: Chaya Babu, YZ Chin, Bridgett Davis

This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on May 8, 2018, in collaboration with Feminist Press, with Chaya Babu (Go Home!), YZ Chin (Though I Get Home), and Bridgett Davis (The World According to Fannie Davis). About the Readers: CHAYA BABU is a Brooklyn-based writer, journalist, educator, and healer. Her work has been featured in The Margins, Open City, BuzzFeed, CNN, The Feminist Wire, Huffington Post, and more. She is completing a creat...

Jan 21, 202047 min

PANEL DISCUSSION: Angelica Baker, Lisa Ko, Courtney Maum

This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on July 11, 2017, with Angelica Baker (Our Little Racket), Lisa Ko (The Leavers), and Courtney Maum (Costalegre). About the Readers: Angelica Baker was born and raised in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.F.A. from Columbia University. She now lives in Brooklyn. Lisa Ko’s fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2016, Apogee Journal, Narrative, Copper Nick...

Jan 16, 202048 min

READING: Angelica Baker, Lisa Ko, Courtney Maum

This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on July 11, 2017, with Angelica Baker (Our Little Racket), Lisa Ko (The Leavers), and Courtney Maum (Costalegre). About the Readers: Angelica Baker was born and raised in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.F.A. from Columbia University. She now lives in Brooklyn. Lisa Ko’s fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2016, Apogee Journal, Narrative, Copper Nick...

Jan 14, 202037 min

PANEL DISCUSSION: Hermione Hoby, Kanishk Tharoor, Cherise Wolas

This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on February 27, 2018, for an event we did in partnership with the Catapult writing program, with Hermione Hoby (Neon in Daylight), Kanishk Tharoor (Swimmer Among the Stars), and Cherise Wolas (The Resurrection of Joan Ashby). About our readers: Hermione Hoby grew up in south London and has lived in New York since 2010. She is a freelance journalist who writes about culture and gender for publicatio...

Jan 09, 202048 min

READINGS: Hermione Hoby, Kanishk Tharoor, Cherise Wolas

This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on February 27, 2018, for an event we did in partnership with the Catapult writing program, with Hermione Hoby (Neon in Daylight), Kanishk Tharoor (Swimmer Among the Stars), and Cherise Wolas (The Resurrection of Joan Ashby). About our readers: Hermione Hoby grew up in south London and has lived in New York since 2010. She is a freelance journalist who writes about culture and gender for publicatio...

Jan 07, 202041 min

PANEL DISCUSSION: Simeon Marsalis, Cynan Jones, Lynne Tillman

Panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on April 10, 2018, featuring Simeon Marsalis (As Lie Is To Grin), Cynan Jones (Stillicide), and Lynne Tillman (What Would Lynne Tillman Do?). Check back Thursday for the discussion! About our readers: Simeon Marsalis was born in 1990 and graduated from the University of Vermont in 2013. He is from New Rochelle, New York, and has lived in New York City and New Orleans. As Lie Is to Grin is his first book. Cynan Jones was born in 1975 near Aberaer...

Dec 19, 201952 min

READINGS: Simeon Marsalis, Cynan Jones, Lynne Tillman

Readings from the LIC Reading Series event on April 10, 2018, featuring Simeon Marsalis (As Lie Is To Grin), Cynan Jones (Stillicide), and Lynne Tillman (What Would Lynne Tillman Do?). Check back Thursday for the discussion! About our readers: Simeon Marsalis was born in 1990 and graduated from the University of Vermont in 2013. He is from New Rochelle, New York, and has lived in New York City and New Orleans. As Lie Is to Grin is his first book. Cynan Jones was born in 1975 near Aberaeron, Wale...

Dec 17, 201935 min

PANEL DISCUSSION: Focus on Queens: Nancy Agabian, Trace DePass, Meera Nair, Alex Segura

Panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on September 11, 2019, featuring Nancy Agabian (Me As Her Again), Trace DePass (Self-Portrait As the Space Between Us), Meera Nair (Video: Stories), and Alex Segura (Silent City). Check back Thursday for the discussion! About our readers: Nancy Agabian is the author of Princess Freak (Beyond Baroque Books, 2000), a mixed genre collection of poems, short prose, and performance texts on young women’s sexuality and rage, and Me as her again: True S...

Dec 12, 201934 min

READINGS: Focus on Queens: Nancy Agabian, Trace DePass, Meera Nair, Alex Segura

Readings from the LIC Reading Series event on September 11, 2019, featuring Nancy Agabian (Me As Her Again), Trace DePass (Self-Portrait As the Space Between Us), Meera Nair (Video: Stories), and Alex Segura (Silent City). Check back Thursday for the discussion! About our readers: Nancy Agabian is the author of Princess Freak (Beyond Baroque Books, 2000), a mixed genre collection of poems, short prose, and performance texts on young women’s sexuality and rage, and Me as her again: True Stories o...

Dec 10, 201957 min

PANEL DISCUSSION: Idra Novey, John Wray, Garnette Cardogan

The panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on May 9, 2019, featuring Idra Novey (Those Who Knew), John Wray (Godsend), and Garnette Cadogan (Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas). Listen to our previous episode for the readings. About our readers: Idra Novey is the award-winning author of the novel Ways to Disappear. Her work has been translated into ten languages and she’s translated numerous authors from Spanish and Portuguese, most recently Clarice Lispector. She lives in Br...

Dec 05, 201944 min

READINGS: Idra Novey, John Wray, Garnette Cadogan

Readings from the LIC Reading Series event on May 9, 2019, featuring Idra Novey (Those Who Knew), John Wray (Godsend), and Garnette Cadogan (Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas). Check back Thursday for the discussion! About our readers: Idra Novey is the award-winning author of the novel Ways to Disappear. Her work has been translated into ten languages and she’s translated numerous authors from Spanish and Portuguese, most recently Clarice Lispector. She lives in Brooklyn with her famil...

Dec 03, 201942 min

PANEL DISCUSSION: Jen Doll, Jaclyn Gilbert, Crystal Hana Kim

The panel discussion from our event on January 8, 2019, featuring Jen Doll (UNCLAIMED BAGGAGE and SAVE THE DATE), Jaclyn Gilbert (LATE AIR), and Crystal Hana Kim (IF YOU LEAVE ME). Find more details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/lic-reading-series/lic-reading-jen-doll-jaclyn-gilbert-crystal-hana-kim/989092187953921/ About our readers: JEN DOLL is a freelance journalist and the author of the young adult novel Unclaimed Baggage as well as the memoir Save the Date: The Occasional Mortificat...

Nov 28, 201944 min

READINGS: Jen Doll, Jaclyn Gilbert, Crystal Hana Kim

Readings from our event on January 8, 2019, featuring Jen Doll (UNCLAIMED BAGGAGE and SAVE THE DATE), Jaclyn Gilbert (LATE AIR), and Crystal Hana Kim (IF YOU LEAVE ME). Find more details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/lic-reading-series/lic-reading-jen-doll-jaclyn-gilbert-crystal-hana-kim/989092187953921/ About our readers: JEN DOLL is a freelance journalist and the author of the young adult novel Unclaimed Baggage as well as the memoir Save the Date: The Occasional Mortifications of a Se...

Nov 26, 201947 min

PANEL DISCUSSION: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Hannah Lillith Assadi, Keith Gessen

December 11, 2018 at the LIC Reading Series at LIC Bar in Queens, NY Panel discussion from our event on December 11, 2018, featuring Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (FRIDAY BLACK), Hannah Lillith Assadi (SONORA), and Keith Gessen (A TERRIBLE COUNTRY). Find more details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/213310262886900/ About our readers: NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH has an MFA from Syracuse University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Esquire, Guernica, Printe...

Nov 21, 201950 min

READINGS: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Hannah Lillith Assadi, Keith Gessen

December 11, 2018 at the LIC Reading Series at LIC Bar in Queens, NY Readings from our event on December 11, 2018, featuring Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (FRIDAY BLACK), Hannah Lillith Assadi (SONORA), and Keith Gessen (A TERRIBLE COUNTRY). Find more details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/213310262886900/ About our readers: NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH has an MFA from Syracuse University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Esquire, Guernica, Printer’s Row,...

Nov 19, 201936 min

Welcome to LIC Reading Series

Where is all of the literary love for Queens? It's right here at LIC Reading Series. Join us for stories, readings, and discussions with acclaimed writers, recorded with a live audience in the cozy carriage house of a classic pub in Long Island City, Queens, NY. Hosted by Catherine LaSota. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 11, 20192 min
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