READING: Joe Okonkwo, Rob Spillman, and Charlie Vazquez
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 14, 2016, with Joe Okonkwo (Jazz Moon), Rob Spillman (All Tomorrow\\u2019s Parties), and Charlie Vazquez (Fantasmas: Puerto Rican Terror Tales). Check back Thursday for the discussion!\\nAbout the Readers:\\nJoe Okonkwo\\xa0is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, and editor. His debut novel\\xa0Jazz Moon, set against the backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance and glittering Jazz Age Paris, was published by Kensington Books in 2016.\\xa0Jazz Moon\\xa0won the Publishing Triangle\\u2019s prestigious 2016 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. It was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Fiction. Joe\\u2019s short stories have appeared in\\xa0Promethean,\\xa0Penumbra,\\xa0Cooper Street,\\xa0Storychord, LGBTsr.org,\\xa0Chelsea Station, and\\xa0Shotgun Honey. His work has been anthologized in\\xa0Love Stories from Africa\\xa0(his first fiction published outside the U.S.),\\xa0Best Gay Love Stories 2009, and\\xa0Best Gay Stories 2015.\\n\\ufeffRob Spillman\\xa0co-founded and edited the seminal literary magazine\\xa0Tin House, which published from 1999-2019.\\xa0Tin House\\xa0was the recipient of the inaugural CLMP Firecracker Award for Magazine of the Year in 2015. He is the recipient PEN/Nora Magid Award for Editing, the Vido Award, presented by VIDA, Women in Literary Arts, and the CLMP Energizer Award for Acts of Outstanding Literary Citizenship. His writing has appeared in\\xa0BookForum, the\\xa0Boston Review,\\xa0Connoisseur,\\xa0Details,\\xa0GQ,\\xa0Guernica,\\xa0Nerve, the\\xa0New York Times Book Review,\\xa0Rolling Stone, Salon,\\xa0Spin,\\xa0Sports Illustrated,\\xa0Time,\\xa0Vanity Fair,\\xa0Vogue, among other magazines, newspapers, and essay collections. His memoir,\\xa0All Tomorrow\\u2019s Parties, was published by Grove Press in 2016.\\nCarlos V\\xe1zquez\\xa0is a self-identified queer American artist, writer, and musician of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent and a New York Foundation For The Arts and NEA Fellow for poetry. He is also the editor of Fireking Press, where he has published a novel and a book of short stories. His fiction, erotica and essays have appeared in a number of anthologies, magazines, and websites. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his partner, poet John Williams.\\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'