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Secret Reading and Party
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Call 212.755.6710
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The Mercantile Library
17 East 47th Street
April 14 at 6:30
Clancy Martin
Dawn Raffel
Christine Schutt

Christine Schutt is the author of two short-story collections, Nightwork and A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer. Her novel Florida was a National Book Award finalist. Her second novel, All Souls, will be published in April 2008. The recipient of a Pushcart and two O. Henry Prizes, her fiction has also been anthologized in The KGB Bar Reader and The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories. She is a senior editor of NOON and lives and teaches in New York.

Dawn Raffel is the author of a story collection In the Year of Long Division (Knopf) and a novel, Carrying the Body (Scribner). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous magazines and anthologies, including NOON, O, The Oprah Magazine, Conjunctions, The Quarterly, The Mississippi Review, The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review and The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories. A new collection, Further Adventures in the Restless Universe, is forthcoming in 2010.

Clancy Martin, a Canadian, formerly a jeweler, is now a philosophy professor at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. His fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in NOON, McSweeney’s, Philosophy and Literature, Ethics, and elsewhere. His translation of Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra was published in 2006 by Barnes and Noble Classics, and he is presently working on a translation of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil. His novel How to Sell is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2009), as is an as yet untitled philosophical work examining the nature of truth and deception in love.

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