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Scrumptious 6 PM buffet dinner will be followed by actors reading short, shorter and shortest stories at 7 PM.

Programme*

Andrew Borba will read Email Offer by Ron Carlson

Eric Balfour will read Introduction to Speech by Ron Carlson

Samantha Mathis will read Rana Fegrina by Dylan Landis

Michael Rappaport will read Eastwood by Jim Ruland

Kevin Kilner will read Olympus Hills by Ron Carlson

Taylor Negron will read his new story Tuesdays with Lucy

Barry Shabaka Henley will read Oh America by Ron Carlson

*Appearances of actors are subject to availability.

Please note that drinks, coffee, desserts and gratuity are not included!

Ron Carlson is flying in from Arizona and will be signing A Kind of Flying, available for purchase courtesy of Small World Books. Ron is the author of eight books of fiction, including A Kind of Flying and At the Jim Bridger, the novels Betrayed by F.Scott Fitzgerald, Truants, The Speed of Light and three other story collections among them, The Hotel Eden. His short stories have appeared in Esquire, Harpers, The New Yorker, Gentlemen's Quarterly, Epoch, The North American Review and other journals. His work has been selected for The Best American Short Stories, The O'Henry Prize Series, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction and dozens of other anthologies. Mr. Carlson, who has taught writing at Arizona State University since 1986, has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, the Cohen Prize at Ploughshares, and a National Society of Arts and Letters Literature Award.

Dylan Landis will be signing The Best Non-Required Reading of 2003 edited by Dave Eggars, as her story , "Rana Fegrina" is included in the collection. Dylan Landis is writing a novel, Floorwork, and a collection of linked stories. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Bomb, and other publications, and recently won the Poets & Writers California Voices Award and Richard Yates Short Story Award. In a past life she wrote six books on interior design. She lives in Los Angeles.

Taylor Negron, a multi-talented actor and comedian well-known to television and film viewers and comedy club attendees, will be reading from his recently completed and soon to be published collection of short stories, Remade As Fiction.

Jim Ruland is the host of Vermin on the Mount: an irreverent reading series in the heart of Chinatown. He is a regular contributor to The Believer and Razorcake Fanzine and the recipient of a literature fellowship from the NEA. Gorsky Press will publish his short story collection Big Lonesome next year.

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