Cornelia Street Cafe Hosts Free Range Readings & O'Farrill Brothers Band Tonight, 9/1

Wed Sep 1st 6:00PM
FREE RANGE READINGS
(Lea Bender; Tim Gomez; Stephen Markley; Mira Ptacin; Rakesh Satyal)

A monthly nonfiction reading series that brings together up-and-coming and established writers to share their work with the rest of the world. Freerange practices the method of literary husbandry where the authors are permitted to write, read, and roam freely instead of being constrained by traditional categories or labels of their genre. This principle is to allow the writers as much freedom as possible, to live out their instinctual behaviors in a reasonably natural way, regardless of whether or not they are eventually killed for meat.
About our readers:

Lea Bender is a NYC-based writer and performer. She is currently working on a book (Second Sight) that chronicles her time living with spirit mediums in rural Ghana. This will be her first public reading of that project.

Tim Gomez is currently a student in hte MFA nonfiction writing program at Sarah Lawrence College. He currently resides in Bronx, NY, but his heart is in Los Angeles, CA. He writes news and reviews for CinemaBlend.com.

Stephen Markley: A native Ohioan, Markley now calls Chicago home. He works as writer for RedEye and KickingTires. His first book, "Publish This Book: The Unbelievable True Story of How I Wrote, Sold, and Published This Very Book" was published March 2010 by Sourcebooks.

Mira Ptacin is the founder of Freerange Nonfiction. She's a gradate of Sarah Lawrence College's MFA program in creative nonfiction, where she was the editor of LUMINA literary magazine and taught creative writing at the Valhalla Women's Correction Facility. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two dogs where she's training for (and writing about) the 2010 Chicago Marathon. http://goodgriefrunner.blogspot.com/

Rakesh Satyal is the author of the novel BLUE BOY, a gender-bending comedy about a young Indian American boy's fascination with the Hindu god Krishna. Satyal is an editor at HarperCollins and also sings in a popular cabaret show in New York. He is a graduate of Princeton University and lives in Brooklyn. http://www.rakeshsatyal.com/

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. -- Pablo Picasso
Mira Ptacin, host. Cover $7 http://www.freerangenonfiction.com

CORNELIA STREET CAFÉ
29 Cornelia Street, NYC, New York    212-989-9319
http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com
between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village
1 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, V, F to West 4th St.

Photo Credit: David Leadi Photography Inc.