Columbia University Faculty Selects @ KGB

December 7, 2006 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

KGB, 85 East 4th Street (btw 2nd and 3rd Avenue)

From KGB:

Fiction writer Tupelo Hassman graduated from Columbia’s M.F.A. program this year and is working on her first novel, girlchild. Against the trappings ofsevere poverty, abuse, alcoholism, and mental and emotional handicaps that mark The Calle – a world where ‘every house has a hitch’ – girlchild’s young narrator, Rory, is not only drawn by the language she uses to tell her storybut also discovers that through language she can examine the politics of memory and underclass representation. Ms. Hassman’s writing has been published in The Portland Review Literary Journal, Paper Street Press,Flamingo, and Tantalum.

Stephanie Anderson’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Letters & Commentary, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, LIT, Painted Bride Quarterly and TYPO.  Her chapbook, In the Particular Particular, won the
2006 DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press chapbook competition.  She grew up in Pennsylvania and currently teaches in Brooklyn and Harlem.

David Gerrard is a fiction writer who has recently completed his first novel, Short Century. Set during the 1960s and the present day, Short Century
each the more he tries to break away.

tells the story of a journalist who sets out to rebel both against his wealthy WASP family and against the nihilistic worldview of a famous professor whom he befriends, but finds himself growing more entangled with