READING: Alexander Chee, Jonathan Lee, and Natalie S. Harnett

Published: May 19, 2020, 1:20 p.m.

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 April 12, 2016, with Alexander Chee, Jonathan Lee, and Natalie S. Harnett. Check out the panel discussion on Thursday!\\nAbout the Readers:\\nAlexander Chee is a novelist and essayist and an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He is a contributing editor at\\xa0The New Republic, an editor at large at\\xa0The Virginia Quarterly Review, and a critic at large at\\xa0The Los Angeles Times.\\nJonathan Lee is a British writer living in Brooklyn.\\xa0High Dive\\xa0is his first novel to be published in the United States.\\nNatalie S. Harnett has an MFA from Columbia in Fiction and has been awarded an Edward Albee Fellowship, a Summer Literary Seminars Fellowship, and a Vermont Studio Center Writer\\u2019s Grant. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. It has also been a finalist for the Mary McCarthy Prize, the Mid-List Press First Series Award, the Glimmer Train\\u2019s Short Story Award, and The Ray Bradbury Short Story Fellowship.\\xa0Her publications include the Chicago Quarterly Review,\\xa0The Irish Echo, & The New York Times. Her debut novel, THE HOLLOW GROUND, won the John Gardner Book Award, the Appalachian Book of the Year Award & was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. She lives on Long Island and Northeastern PA with her family.\\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'