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November 2012

Double Take Reading Series from Bookforum and Apexart

November 8, 2012 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
apexart, 291 Church Street
New York, United States
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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' Street of Crocodiles.  Benjamin Anastas and Ed Park on their grandmothers.  Albert Mobilio and Alan Gilbert on Pink Floyd's album The Wall.

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Show, Tell and Trade with Krrb, Brokelyn and Benjamin Anastas

November 15, 2012 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Krrb Loft, 99 Richardson Street
Brooklyn, 11211 United States
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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 parent in Brooklyn who trades in denial for truth to turn his life around. Come trade for other goods or a signed copy of the…

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December 2012

Pete’s Candy Store

December 6, 2012 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Pete’s Candy Store, 709 Lorimer Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211 United States

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 York Diaries 1609-2009."

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Panel Discussion on the Ethics of Biography

December 10, 2012 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
The Skylight Room / CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016 United States

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 John Matteson; the MacArthur “genius grant” ethicist Carol Levine; and the novelist Benjamin Anastas, whose new memoir, Too Good to Be True, has triggered a…

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January 2013

Benjamin Anastas Reads with Jill McCorkle

January 10, 2013 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Tishman Auitorium, Bennington College
Bennington, VT United States

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."

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March 2013

“Too Good to Be True” on the East End

March 13, 2013 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Radio Lounge, Chancellor's Hall / Stony Brook University
Southampton, NY United States

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.

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“Too Good to Be True” comes to the Bay Area

March 15, 2013 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
CCA’s MFA Writing Studio, 195 De Haro
San Francisco, CA United States

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.

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April 2013

“Too Good to Be True” Reading

April 27, 2013 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Old South Church, Social Hall Newburyport, MA United States

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.

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Best American Essays Panel

April 27, 2013 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Old South Church Newburyport, MA United States

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.

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May 2013

PEN World Voices Festival

May 1, 2013 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011 United States
$20

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 consumed, marketed, and reviewed today. Benjamin Anastas, author of the memoir "Too Good to Be True," will be among the panelists.  Moderated by Rachel Riederer, an…

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