when December 12, 2010 @ 2:00pm
where apexart, 291 Church Street, New York, NY 10013, 212-431-5270

Admission is free.

Black Clock contributor John Haskell will be reading with Aaron Garretson, Fiona Maazel, Syreeta McFadden, Tao Lin, and Emma Straub at apexart’s third edition of the Almost Famous Reading Series.

Aaron Garretson was shortlisted for the Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, and has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

John Haskell was awarded a 2009 Guggenheim award, and has taught writing and literature at Columbia, Cal Arts, and the University of Leipzig.

Tao Lin is the author of six books of fiction and poetry, the most recent of which is Richard Yates (Melville House, 2010).

Fiona Maazel is the winner of the Bard Prize for Fiction in 2009. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Bomb, and elsewhere.

Syreeta McFadden is the managing editor of Union Station Magazine and her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Religion Dispatches, Black Commentator and elsewhere.

Emma Straub‘s writing has appeared in The Paris Review Daily, 52 Stories, Gargoyle, and elsewhere. Her next short story collection will be published in February 2011.