Joan Larkin is the author of six poetry collections, most recently Old Stranger: Poems, as well as Blue Hanuman and My Body: New and Selected Poems. She has received the Audre Lorde Award, the Lambda Literary Award. She co-founded Out & Out Books during the 1970s feminist literary explosion, co-edited four anthologies, including Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time, and has been a lifelong teacher. Larkin has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She received the 2011 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Photo Credit: Jessica Madavo

 Nina St. Pierre is a queer essayist and culture writer whose work has appeared in Elle, GQ, Harper's Bazaar, The Cut, Gossamer, Outside Magazine, and more. She is a 2023 New York Foundation for the Arts fellow in Nonfiction Literature, holds an MFA from Rutgers, and lives in Brooklyn. Love is a Burning Thing, a memoir of family, fire, and what it means to believe, is her first book. 

 Ledia Xhoga is an Albanian American fiction writer and playwright. Her debut novel, Misinterpretation (Tin House) is a Finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and a Debutiful Best Book of the Year. Before getting an MFA in fiction from Texas State University, she worked in publishing in New York City. She has been published in Intrepid Times, Hobart, KGB magazine, and other journals. Originally from Tirana, Albania, she lives with her family in Brooklyn and the Catskills. Photo Credit: Todd Estrin

 Jenny Xie is the author of Holding Pattern (Riverhead Books), a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. Her short fiction has appeared in The Sewanee Review, AGNI, Ninth Letter, and Joyland, among other publications. Her writing on design, travel, and culture has been featured in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Architectural Digest, Apartment Therapy, Them, and Dwell, where she was previously the Executive Editor. Jenny is the grateful recipient of fellowships from organizations like Bread Loaf, MacDowell, and Yaddo. Photo Credit: Cheryl Chan

Join Workshops for Gaza for our first IN-PERSON reading at Yu and Me Books in New York City featuring writers Megan Fernandes, Jenny Xie and Kyle Lucia Wu! All proceeds will go to the Sameer Project’s Refaat Alareer Camp, which provides medical and educational support to children and adults in Gaza.

Megan Fernandes is the author of I Do Everything I’m Told (Tin House, 2023). Her work has been published in The New Yorker, POETRY, The Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, and Ploughshares, among others. She is an Associate Professor and Writer-in-Residence at Lafayette College.

Jenny Xie is the author of Holding Pattern, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her short fiction has appeared in journals like Sewanee Review, AGNI, Ninth Letter, and Joyland, and she’s received support from organizations like MacDowell, Yaddo, and Bread Loaf.

Kyle Lucia Wu is the author of Win Me Something (Tin House Books, 2021). She is also the co-author with Cathy Linh Che of An Asian American A to Z: A Children's Guide to our History (Haymarket Books, 2023). Kyle is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute and a lecturer at the New School.

P&T Knitwear is pleased to welcome Janika Oza to celebrate the release of the paperback edtion of her debut novel, A History of Burning: a "vast and intricate...towering debut" (Megha Majumdar, New York Times bestselling author of A Burning) in which the embers of a desperate act by a family's patriarch are fanned into flame over four generations, four continents, throughout the twentieth century.

Janika will be joined in conversation by critically acclaimed novelist Jenny Xie. After the discussion and Q&A, Janika will be signing copies of A History of Burning.

Finding an Angle: When Perspective is Plot with Jenny Xie

Managing plot can feel daunting, but another way to approach the question is obliquely—through playing with perspective. What happens when one character is filtered through the lens of another? Or when we leap forward to another vantage point in time? This session will investigate how unexpected choices and changes in point of view can yield tension, intrigue, complexity, and revelation that drive the story forward, creating an engine that both supports and challenges more traditional notions of plot. We’ll learn from the masterful restraints and reveals of Alice Munro, the unsettling omissions of Han Kang, the altered states of Denis Johnson, and more in a blend of discussion, writing, and Q&A.

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Join us for a joint reading and brief conversation with two rising writers, Mira Dougherty-Johnson and Jenny Xie. Hear their insights and inspirations as the two talk about their writing processes and journeys. After the reading, there will be a Q&A with the writers.  

Each year, the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 program recognizes five exceptional debut fiction authors, selected by past National Book Award and 5 Under 35 honorees. Join us for readings and conversation with the 2023 5 Under 35 honorees: Mateo Askaripour (Black Buck), Chelsea T. Hicks (A Calm & Normal Heart), Morgan Talty (Night of the Living Rez), Jenny Xie (Holding Pattern), and Ada Zhang (The Sorrows of Others). Moderated by Natalie Green, Director of Programs & Partnerships at the National Book Foundation.

Presented in partnership with Books & Books, the Miami Book Fair, and the National Book Foundation.

Join us for a reading by Elisa M. Gonzalez (Grand Tour, FSG 2023), Isle McElroy (People Collide, HarperCollins 2023), and Jenny Xie (Holding Pattern, Riverhead 2023). Each of these authors have published a new and amazing book in 2023.

Kundiman New Books Reading: J. Mae Barizo, Ava Chin, Bushra Rehman, and Jenny Xie

Co-sponsored with Kundiman, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing generations of writers and readers of Asian American literature.

Readings by J. Mae Barizo, Ava Chin, Bushra Rehman, and Jenny Xie followed by a reception/signing.

Join us for readings by highly acclaimed authors Brandon Taylor (The Late Americans), Jenny Xie (Holding Pattern), Daniel Magariel (Walk the Darkness Down), Rachel Cantor (Half-Life of a Stolen Sister), Joseph Lezza (I'm Never Fine), and Elwin Cotman (The Wizard's Homecoming)! Free Admission, drink specials + book raffle!

Green Apple Books offsite at The Ruby. RSVP is required.

Live in-store and streamed on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/iN1JYVhzbYU

REFORMA Northeast Chapter’s 19th Annual Join Mini-Conference

Celebrate the 2023 National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 honorees, alongside their selectors, at a first-ever public ceremony, featuring readings from the writers’ debut works and a conversation with the authors. In 2006, the National Book Foundation established the 5 Under 35 prize to recognize young, debut fiction writers whose work promises to leave a lasting impression on the literary landscape. Each year, five honorees under the age of thirty-five are selected by authors previously recognized by the National Book Foundation. Read thoughts from this year’s honorees about writing, museums, and the creative process.

In support of the Susan Wicklund Fund with Ines Bellina, Theo LeGro, and Jenny Xie

For more than two decades, Library Journal’s Day of Dialog has been the most anticipated librarian-only gathering of the year. All sessions will be available for viewing on-demand within 24 hrs of their initial broadcast, and the entire event will be available on-demand until August 4, 2023.