6:30 p.m.

Susan Shapiro and Andrew Zornoza read and discuss their work.

Susan Shapiro's work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, Village Voice, Glamour, More, Salon, and the Daily Beast. She is the author of the memoirs Only as Good as Your Word and Lighting Up as well as Five Men Who Broke My Heart, which was optioned for a feature film. Speed Shrinking is her first novel. She has taught at The New School since 1993.

Andrew Zornoza is a writer and visual artist from Houston, Texas. He is the author of the photo-prose novel Where I Stay. His fiction and essays have appeared in magazines such as Sleepingfish, Confrontation, Porcupine Literary Arts, CapGun, H.O.W, Gastronomica, and Matter Magazine. He teaches writing at The New School and fiction at Gotham Writer's Workshop.

Moderated by Luis Jaramillo, associate chair, The New School Writing Program.

Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, room 510

Admission:
$5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID

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