Pen Parentis to Present RISQUE WORDS, 11/11

The Pen Parentis Literary Salon welcomes four authors who unflinchingly take on the blush-worthy subjects of sex, drugs, violence, and the sometimes ugly realities of fame in their work. Featuring Paula Bomer, author of Inside Madeline; Vica Miller, founder of the Vica Miller Literary Salons and author of the novel Inga's Zigzags; Jonathan Papernick, author of the collections There Is No Other and The Ascent of Eli; and Amy Sohn, author of The Actress and Prospect Park West. Each author will read from their work and then participate in an informal, salon-style roundtable about their writing and parenting lives. It's sure to be an insightful, lively evening.

The reading takes place on Tuesday, November 11th at the elegant Hotel Andaz at 75 Wall Street, which graciously provides happy hour specials on beer on wine. The night kicks off at 7:00 pm, and admission is free. RSVP is recommended, but not required -the Pen Parentis Literary Salon is open to adults over the age of 21. The authors' books are available for purchase from The Park Slope Community Bookstore.

November 11th's Literary Salon features:

Paula Bomer is the author of the collection, Inside Madeleine (Soho Press, May 2014), and the novel Nine Months (Soho Press, August 2012), which received exuberant reviews inThe Atlantic, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, and elsewhere. Her collection, Baby and Other Stories (Word Riot Press, December 2010), received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, calling it a "lacerating take on marriage and motherhood...not one to share with the Mommy and Me group," Kirkus Review deemed it "a worthy, if challenging, entry into the genre of transgressional fiction," and O Magazine referred to it as a "brilliant, brutally raw debut." She also is the publisher of Sententia Books and edits Sententia: The Literary Journal.

Vica Miller is a native of St. Petersburg (Russia) and a New Yorker for over two decades. She is the author of the debut novel, Inga's Zigzags, and the founder of the Vica Miller Literary Salons, a chamber reading series held at select NYC art galleries, featuring both published and unpublished authors. She has written for Vogue Russia,Internet, Matador and Tennis Week. Her short stories have appeared in The Jet Fuel Review, Asymptote, The Linnet's Wings and Thrice Fiction literary journals. She has also published a book of poems, and is currently at work on her second novel, The Shadow of a Blue Doll.

Jonathan Papernick is the author the story collections There Is No Other and The Ascent of Eli Israel. His work has appeared in Night Train, Exile: The Literary Quarterly, Nerve, Folio, Failbetter, The Drum, Confrontation, The Reading Room and Post Road as well as numerous anthologies. He is currently at work on his third collection of stories Gallery of the Disappeared Men and is revising a novel about a con man who sells the Brooklyn Bridge. He recently released a limited-edition mini-collection of erotic stories entitled XYXX. His novel The Book of Stone will be published by Fig Tree Books in 2015. He is Senior Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College in Boston.

Amy Sohn is the author of the novels The Actress, Motherland, Prospect Park West, My Old Man, and Run Catch Kiss. She has written for The New York Times, Slate, Details, Harper's Bazaar, and many other publications, and penned columns for The New York Press and The New York Post. She was a contributing editor to New York Magazine for six years, where she wrote the columns "The Naked City," "Mating," and "Breeding." She has written screenplays and television pilots, and also co-created, wrote, and starred in one of the first shows on the Oxygen network, Avenue Amy. This is her second appearance at Pen Parentis.

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