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November 2012
Double Take Reading Series from Bookforum and Apexart
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.
Find out more »Show, Tell and Trade with Krrb, Brokelyn and Benjamin Anastas
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…
Find out more »December 2012
Pete’s Candy Store
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."
Find out more »Panel Discussion on the Ethics of Biography
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…
Find out more »January 2013
Benjamin Anastas Reads with Jill McCorkle
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."
Find out more »March 2013
“Too Good to Be True” on the East End
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.
Find out more »“Too Good to Be True” comes to the Bay Area
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.
Find out more »April 2013
“Too Good to Be True” Reading
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.
Find out more »Best American Essays Panel
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.
Find out more »May 2013
PEN World Voices Festival
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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