Tuesday, June 10, 7:00pm
Housing Works Used Bookstore & Café (126 Crosby St, South of Houston)
Uwem Akpan & Anderson Tepper

Uwem Akpan will read from and discuss his upcoming story collection, Say You’re One of Them, and his life as a Jesuit priest with Vanity Fair’s Anderson Tepper in the first installment of Two residents of PEN World Voices’ year-round programming. Akpan was born in Ikot Akpan Eda in souther Nigeria and teaches at a Jesuit seminary in Zimbabwe. “My Parents’ Bedroom,” a story in the book, was a finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing.

Wednesday, June 11, 7:00pm
Housing Works Used Bookstore & Café (126 Crosby St, South of Houston)Horacio Castellanos Moya, Senselessness

Horacio Castellanos Moya is one of El Salvador’s most acclaimed writers, and the author of eight books and many newspaper and magazine articles. Senselessness is his first work to be published in English. He’ll be reading from it Wednesday at Housing Works.

Thursday, June 12, 7:30pm
Solas Bar (232 E. 9th Street, between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
St. Mark’s Bookshop presents Tao Lin & Dynasty Handbag

The writer (Eeeee eee eeee) Tao Lin will read from his newest work, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, and Dynasty Handbag, the “the solo music/video/voiceover/comitragic performance vehicle created and executed by Jibz Cameron” will perform at this edition of the St. Mark’s reading series.