Join us for the second Double Take Reading, organized by Bookforum's Albert Mobilio, where three pairs of authors read original shorts written about a shared experience. Apexart turns into a supper club for the evening with snacks and refreshments. The readers for this special night are: Stacey D'Erasmo and Maud Casey on the Quay Brothers' […]
Come Celebrate frugality with Krrb, Brokelyn Blog and author, Benjamin Anastas. Show, Tell and Trade something you love from a time when you were strapped. Krrb will be featuring a reading by acclaimed writer Benjamin Anastas, from his new book Too Good to Be True—a raw and honest writer's memoir about a struggling writer and single […]
For ten years running, Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg has earned a reputation as Brooklyn's premier reading series, where today's literary icons and tomorrow's stars take the stage regularly. For his last reading from "Too Good to Be True" in 2012, Anastas will be taking the stage at Pete's with Teresa Carpenter, editor of "New […]
In recent weeks the David Petraeus–Paula Broadwell scandale militaire has generated much hand-wringing about the ethics of biography. The Leon Levy Center for Biography will address the issues raised as well as others with a panel discussion on Monday, December 10, at 5:30pm, including a remarkable lineup: two Pulitzer Prize biographers, David Levering Lewis and […]
The Bennington MFA program's winter residency kicks off with a reading by two core faculty members: the novelist Jill McCorkle, and Benjamin Anastas, reading from "Too Good to Be True."
Anastas will visit the Stony Brook/Southampton campus to read from "Too Good to Be True" and speak about the perils of the literary life with MFA students.
Anastas will be reading from "Too Good to Be True" at the MFA Studio of the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. The event is free and open to the public.
Founded in 2005, the Newburyport Literary Festival attracts over 3000 book-lovers to this historic seaport every year for a program of readings, dialogues and author events. At the first of his two events at the 2013 Newburyport Literary Festival, Anastas will be reading from his memoir Too Good to Be True, followed by a Q&A.
In the second of his two events at the 2013 Newburyport Literary Festival, Anastas will be taking part in a panel discussion on The Best American Essays series, moderated by Alan Lightman. Other participants include writers Lauren Slater and Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough.
Why are confessional narratives penned by female writers so often deemed “brave,” “sticky,” or in the case of Sharon Olds, “opportunistic,” when the same material addressed by male writers is called by its name: art? For the PEN World Voices festival, join Guernica Magazine to confess, grieve, and take jabs at the glaring double-standard in how personal writing is […]
