Lit at Lark Reading Series Kick-Off, Featuring Darin Strauss, Fiona Maazel, and Leigh Newman!

Lit at Lark is a reading series, curated by Kensington novelist Amy Shearn, featuring some of Brooklyn's best and brightest writers (and the occasional traveler). Come have a coffee or glass of wine and listen to fiction and nonfiction read by award-winners, best-sellers, and up-and-coming writers, at the beautiful Lark Cafe right here in the Kensington/Ditmas Park neighborhood. Because literature is better with snacks. 

Our first reading will be September 15th, 5-7pm, at Lark Cafe (1007 Church Ave, between Coney Island Avenue and Stratford Road). The event is free.

Learn more at facebook.com/litatlark, @litatlark, or email amyshearnwrites.com

Our first featured readers will be Darin Strauss, Fiona Maazel, and Leigh Newman. Their bios are below.

A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and a winner of the American Library Association's Alix Award and The National Book Critics Circle Award, the internationally-bestselling writer Darin Strauss is the author of the novels Chang & Eng, The Real McCoy, and More Than It Hurts You, and the NBCC-winning memoir Half a Life. Darin has been translated into fourteen languages and published in nineteen countries, and he is a Clinical Associate Professor at NYU's creative writing program.

Leigh Newman’s memoir Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home came out with Dial Press in March 2013. Her fiction, essays and book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Modern Love, Vogue, O The Oprah Magazine, and elsewhere. She currently serves as Deputy Editor of Oprah.com and as an editor-at-large for the indie press Black Balloon Publishing.

Fiona Maazel is the author of the novels Last Last Chance (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008; Picador Paperback, 2009) and Woke Up Lonely (Graywolf, 2013). She is winner of the Bard Prize for Fiction and a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35″ honoree, which feels less potent now that she is 38. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The NY Times Sunday Book Review, This American Life, and elsewhere. She teaches at Brooklyn College, New York University, Columbia, and Princeton. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.