An Evening with Authors David Means and Elias Rodriques

Join us for a rare opportunity to hear two brilliant local authors, David Means and Elias Rodriques, read their work in downtown Nyack! David Means is the author of six short-story collections, including Two Nurses, Smoking; Instructions for a Funeral; The Spot—a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Assorted Fire Events—winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and The Secret Goldfish. His novel Hystopia was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. A Guggenheim Fellow and three-time winner of the O. Henry Prize, his stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, and many other publications. He is a professor at Vassar College. Elias Rodriques is author of the novel All the Water I've Seen is Running. His short fiction and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Nation, and other venues. He is an Associate Editor at n+1 magazine and an Assistant Professor of English at CUNY-Lehman College. This event is free, but space is limited, so please reserve a ticket, and if you can’t make it after all, please be sure to release it!