PANEL DISCUSSION: Kathleen Alcott, Ryan Chapman, and Nick Mancusi
b'Where is all of the literary love for Queens? It\\u2019s right here at\\xa0LIC Reading Series. Join them each week for stories, readings, and discussions with acclaimed writers, recorded with a live audience in the cozy carriage house of a classic pub in Long Island City, Queens, New York, and hosted by founder Catherine LaSota.\\nThis week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on June 11, 2019, with Kathleen Alcott (America Was Hard to Find), Ryan Chapman (Riots I Have Known), and Nick Mancusi (A Philosophy of Ruin).\\nAbout the Readers:\\nBorn in 1988 in Northern California, Kathleen Alcott is the author of the novels\\xa0Infinite Home\\xa0and\\xa0The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets.\\xa0Her short stories and nonfiction have appeared in\\xa0Zoetrope: All Story,\\xa0ZYZZYVA,\\xa0The Guardian,\\xa0Tin House,\\xa0The New York Times Magazine, the\\xa0Bennington Review, and elsewhere. In 2017, she was shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award; her short fiction has been translated into Korean and Dutch. She divides her time between New York City, where she teaches fiction at Columbia University, and Vermont, where she serves as a 2018-2019 visiting professor at Bennington College.\\xa0\\nRyan Chapman\\xa0is a Sri Lankan-American writer originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota. His work has appeared online at\\xa0The New Yorker,\\xa0GQ,\\xa0McSweeney\\u2019s,\\xa0BookForum,\\xa0BOMB,\\xa0Guernica, and\\xa0The Believer. A recipient of fellowships from Vermont Studio Center and the Millay Colony for the Arts, he lives in Kingston, New York.\\nNicholas Mancusi\\u2019s writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Time magazine, The Daily Beast, NPR Books, and many other publications. His short fiction has appeared in Joyland. His debut novel, published by Hanover Square Press,\\xa0is entitled A Philosophy of Ruin. He\\xa0was raised\\xa0in New York and lives in Brooklyn.\\n*\\nThis event was made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'