Prose writers reading new works from 7 – 9 pm.
Jocelyn Lieu and Mort Zachter

Jocelyn Lieu is known to East Siders as the author of What Isn’t There (Nation Books), a book that takes us through what happened to us all on September 11. We were here and so was she. Her shards of narrative form a house for our communal grief, free of cant and hysteria. An earlier collection, Potential Weapons (Greywolf) garnered praise from Sherman Alexie and Charles Baxter.

Mort Zachter has a very different memory of our neighborhood. In Dough (University of Georgia Press) an hilarious and inventively told memoir, he recounts his personal search for the dough of financial security…and a family secret based on another version of the stuff. For some 60 years his Uncle Harry lived in penury, running a day-old bread store on 11th Street. Out of the blue, Mort inherited the results. His book, which won the 2006 AWP Creative Nonfiction Award, takes on the perils of double life and the many ways money foments cataclysmic changes.

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You are welcome to have a drink or a meal at Mo’s – great food, friendly staff, comfortable chairs. You’re sure to be satisfied!
And look for readings by Hettie Jones, Peter Trachtenberg, Maggie Dubris, Sharon Mesmer, Stanley Alpert, Stephanie Dickinson and many more. Always something unexpected. Always on the first Thursday of the month…except January when the series takes a break.
Martha King is the author of North & South and other prose collections. She published Giants Play Well in the Drizzle, a popular underground zine in the days before the Web.
Elinor Nauen is the author o fAmerican Guys and editor of Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend and Ladies, Start Your Engines. She was a co-editor of KOFF magazine.