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The Reading & The Room

#LiteraryCocktails
by Megan Rickerson

  • O, Brother, What Art Thou for Zain Khalid & Brother Alive
  • Beauty Sleep for Cynthia Pelayo & Vanishing Daughters
  • Palace Gate for Madeleine Thien & The Book of Records

We don’t just hand authors their #LiteraryCocktails and #LiteraryMocktails; we present them with music and props!

Open Mic Readers:

ANDY HEIDEL is the author of the short story collection Desperate Moon, which was praised by Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison. He read from his novella Lilith, An Apocrypha.

What pops into his mind when I say the word TIME? “Dr. Who!”

AMY GRECH has sold over 100 short stories to various anthologies and magazines. Alien Buddha Press published her poetry chapbook, A Shadow of Your Former Self. Her website is crimsonscreams.com

What pops into her mind when I say the word TIME? “Infinite possibilities.”

Matthew Latkiewicz’s writing has appeared in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud WristletGastronomica, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and other zines and journals you’d be hard pressed to find nowadays.

What pops into his mind when I say the word TIME? “How wild it is that we invented clocks! How all of a sudden there was a specific numeric time to any given moment when before there wasn’t. So weird!”

Olga Dauer is an emerging writer who grew up in Ukraine and currently lives in Brooklyn.

What pops into her mind when I say the word FAMILY? “Mayhem! Thanks to my two toddlers!”

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