Nell Freudenberger, Sam Lipsyte, and Jordi Punti @ KGB

December 10, 2006 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

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

From KGB:

Nell Freudenberger’s collection of stories, Lucky Girls, was a New York Times Notable Book and won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 205 she was the recipient of a Whiting Writes Award. She lives in New York City and she reads from her novel:The Dissident

“Nell Freudenberger is awesomely skilled at making characters, setting scenes, and launching in old-fashioned plot suited to the twenty-first century…” Benjamin Kunkel

Sam Lipsyte is the author of Venus Drive and Homeland. He teaches at Columbia University. He reads from new work.

Jordi Puntí is a regular contributor to El País in Barcelona. He has published short-story collections such as Pell d’armadill and Animals tristos, and his work has been included in several anthologies of new Spanish writers, such as After Hours, Mar y montaña, and Pequeñas resistencias. He has also translated work by Daniel Pennac, Amélie Nothomb, Marie Darrieussecq, and Paul Auster, among others. He reads new work.