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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 May 9, 2017, with Megan Abbott (Give Me Your Hand), Julie Buntin (Marlena), and Sarah Gerard (Sunshine State). Check back Thursday for the discussion!\\nAbout the Readers:\\nMegan Abbott\\xa0is the Edgar-winning author of the novels\\xa0Die a Little,\\xa0Bury Me Deep,\\xa0The End of Everything,\\xa0Dare Me,\\xa0You Will Know Me, and\\xa0The Fever. Her most recent book is\\xa0Give Me Your Hand. Her writing has appeared in the\\xa0New York Times, Salon, the\\xa0Guardian,\\xa0Wall Street Journal, the\\xa0Los Angeles Times Magazine, and\\xa0The Believer. Her stories have appeared in multiple collections, including the\\xa0Best American Mystery Stories of 2014\\xa0and\\xa02016. Her work has won or been nominated for the CWA Steel Dagger, the International Thriller Writers Award, the\\xa0Los Angeles Times\\xa0Book Prize, and five Edgar awards. Formerly a staff writer on HBO\\u2019s David Simon show,\\xa0The Deuce, she is now co-creator, executive producer and show-runner of\\xa0Dare Me, based upon her novel, for the USA Network and, internationally, Netflix. Born in the Detroit area, she graduated from the University of Michigan and received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University. She has taught at NYU, the State University of New York and the New School University. In 2013-14, she served as the John Grisham Writer in Residence at Ole Miss. She is also the author of a nonfiction book,\\xa0The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir, and the editor of\\xa0A Hell of a Woman, an anthology of female crime fiction. She has been nominated for many awards, including three Edgar Awards, Hammett Prize, the Shirley Jackson Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Folio Prize.\\nJulie Buntin\\xa0is from northern Michigan. Her debut novel,\\xa0Marlena, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle\\u2019s John Leonard Prize, translated into ten languages, and named a best book of the year by over a dozen outlets, including the\\xa0Washington Post, NPR, and\\xa0Kirkus Reviews. Her writing has appeared in the\\xa0Atlantic,\\xa0Vogue, the\\xa0New York Times Book Review,\\xa0Guernica, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Bread Loaf and the MacDowell Colony, and is an editor-at-large at\\xa0Catapult. Her novel-in-progress is the winner of the 2019 Ellen Levine Fund for Writers Award. She teaches creative writing at the University of Michigan.\\nSarah Gerard\\xa0is the author of the essay collection\\xa0Sunshine State, which was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, and the novel\\xa0Binary Star, which was a finalist for the\\xa0Los Angeles Times\\xa0Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Her short stories, essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared in the\\xa0New York Times,\\xa0T Magazine,\\xa0Granta,\\xa0The Baffler,\\xa0Vice, and the anthologies\\xa0Tampa Noir,\\xa0We Can\\u2019t Help it if We\\u2019re From Florida, and\\xa0One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism. She lives in New York City with her true love, the writer Patty Yumi Cottrell.\\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'