I moved to New York City in the late 1990s after graduating from the low-residency MFA program at Bennington College and learned pretty quickly that KGB Bar and its reading series were the best place in New York to hear and meet and socialize with new and established writers. (A reporter from the New York Times happened to be at KGB one night to document the literary happenings on E. 4th Street.) I gave a number of readings at KGB over the course of my writing life—and attended exponentially more (there’s even a scene set at KGB in my novel, Vernon Downs). I hope you’ll want to come out and help celebrate KGB Bar and all things literary with me and some of my favorite writers. –JC

Jaime Clarke is a graduate of the University of Arizona and holds an MFA from Bennington College. He is the author of the novels We're So Famous, Vernon Downs, World Gone Water, and Garden Lakes; the memoirs Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby, and Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle, which is the basis for his microcast, Typical; editor of the anthologies Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes, Conversations with Jonathan Lethem, and Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers; and co-editor of the anthologies No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine (with Mary Cotton) and Boston Noir 2: The Classics (with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton). He is a founding editor of the literary magazine Post Road, now published at Boston College, and co-owner, with his wife, of Newtonville Books, an independent bookstore in Boston. (View Look Book)