WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7 AT 8PM
BAMCAFÉ / $10
SHALOM AUSLANDER
JENNIFER GILMORE
AARON HAMBURGER
RACHEL KADISH
Moderated by Alana Newhouse (Arts and Culture Editor,
the Forward)
A dazzling array of rising young literary stars will hold a frank
and fearless conversation about being Jewish, being a writer, and the re-imagining
of Jewish identities in early 21st century American fiction. The evening
will begin with short readings and a discussion with audience Q&A.
A book-signing with hors d'oeuvres, live music provided by JDub Records,
and the chance to mingle with the authors will follow. Complimentary
wine will be served throughout the evening.
Shalom Auslander has
published articles in Esquire,
The New Yorker, and the New York Times Magazine, and has
read stories on PRI's This American Life. His short story collection, Beware
of God, was published in 2005. He lives in New York. His next book, Foreskin's
Lament, will be published in the fall of this year. Auslander was
nominated for the Koret Award for writers under 35.
Jennifer Gilmore received her BA from Brandeis University
in 1992 and her MFA in Fiction from Cornell in 1997. She has taught Creative
Writing and Jewish American Literature, has been an editor of the literary
magazine, Epoch, and has also worked in radio as host and producer
of KCMU’s, “Talking Fiction,” and as a writer on the "Leonard
Lopate Show" on WNYC. Gilmore’s work has appeared in magazines and
journals including the Alaska Quarterly Review, Allure, BookForum, Cutbank, Nerve,
the New York Times Magazine, Salon, and the Stranger.
Her essays have been anthologized in The Friend Who Got Away (Doubleday)
and are forthcoming in Eight Nights (Algonquin) and Bad Girls:
25 Writers Misbehave (Norton). Her first novel, Golden Country (Scribner)
was published in September ’06 and was a New York Times Notable
Book of 2006. She lives in Brooklyn.
Aaron Hamburger was awarded the Rome Prize by the American
Academy of Arts and Letters for his short story collection The View
From Stalin's Head (Random House, 2004). His novel, Faith
For Beginners, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and has
just come out in paperback. Currently he teaches creative writing
at Columbia University.
Rachel Kadish is the author of the novels From
a Sealed Room and Tolstoy Lied: a Love Story. She has
published short fiction in magazines including Story, Zoetrope, and Pakn
Treger; her fiction has been anthologized in Lost Tribe: New
Jewish Fiction from the Edge, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and
elsewhere. Her essays have appeared in Real Simple and Tin
House magazines and in anthologies such as The Modern Jewish
Girl’s Guide to Guilt and Who We Are: On Being (And Not
Being) a Jewish Writer in America (both books were winners of 2005
National Jewish Book Awards). She has received a National Endowment
for the Arts fellowship and the Koret Foundation’s 2005 Young
Writer on Jewish Themes award, and was a writer-in-residence at Stanford
University last autumn. She lives outside Boston and teaches at Lesley
University's MFA program.
Photos: Shalom Auslander, Jennifer Gilmore by Nina Subin, Aaron Hamburger,
Alana Newhouse, Rachel Kadish by Neil Giordano