FFR/Princeton BTGALA and the NYU LGBT Alumni Network Present... Readings from Recently Released LGBT Books! Fiction Night.... Joel Derfner, Ann Herendeen, Claire Moed, Stephanie Rosenbaum, Kevin Scott

We'll be converging in the loft upstairs at People for a new installation of our series of readings by lesbian, gay, and bisexual authors followed by a cocktail party - what better way is there to spend Friday the 13th! The readings will begin promptly at 7:00 pm. There will be an opportunity for question and answers after the reading. From 8PM on we'll have drinks and mingling, with books for sale and the authors on hand to autograph their books. Please note that seating is limited - late comers will be admitted at appropriate breaks in the reading space permitting.

Joel Derfner, "A Day in the Life" JOEL DERFNER is a writer, composer, knitter, step aerobics instructor, and go-go boy in New York City. He is the author of "Gay Haiku" and "Swish; My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever" (forthcoming 2008). He also composed the score to "Blood Drive" (book and lyrics by Tony-Award winning bookwriter Rachel Sheinkin), which has been produced by the Bridewell Theater in London, and the score to "Terezin" (book by Peter Ullian, lyrics by Len Schiff), which is scheduled for a production next season at the Village Theater in Seattle. He has written songs for shows by the 52nd Street Project, the Prospect Theater Company, and the Washington Shakespeare Company. He is an alumnus of the Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program at New York University, where is now on the faculty. He can be found on the web at http://www.joelderfner.com/ Joel will be reading an unpublished short story "A Day in the Life."

Ann Herendeen's, "Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander : A Bisexual Regency Romance" A native New Yorker and lifelong resident of Brooklyn, ANN HERENDEEN has worked as a researcher for an urban planning consultant; an advertising media planner; a public and academic business reference librarian; a trademarks monitor for an intellectual property law firm; and a cataloging librarian specializing in natural history. Ann is a graduate of Princeton University, where she majored in English while maintaining a strong interest in English history. She enjoys reading--and writing--for escape. In "Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander," Ann has put a new twist on a traditional form, creating the ultimate love story she always wanted to read: a bisexual historical romance. Ann is a member of FFR/Princeton BTGALA and can be found on the web at http://www.annherendeen.com/ A bisexual (MMF) historical romance novel set in 1812 London, and using the romantic comedy form of a conventional Regency romance, "Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander" tells the story of man with a wife and a boyfriend, not as a problem in need of a solution, but as a love story, with a romance novel's happily-ever-after ending for the three main characters. The story begins when Andrew Carrington, independently wealthy, heir to an earldom--and gay--decides to make a marriage of convenience to Phyllida Lewis, an impoverished but spirited young lady, the author of popular gothic romances. Andrew surprises himself--and her--by falling in love with his wife, then meets his ideal male partner, the blond and hunky Matthew Thornby, son of a self-made cotton baron. "Phyllida" introduces an exclusive establishment for gentlemen who prefer the company of their own sex--the Brotherhood of Philander--whose members are bound together by sexual preference in a world where the law brands gay men as outlaws and leaves them vulnerable to extortion.

Claire Olivia Moed, "Wire Monkey" CLAIRE OLIVIA (C.O.) MOED was born on the Lower East Side of New York City when it was still a tough neighborhood. A violinist until her mid-twenties, C.O. quit music and started performing, writing and producing at the Women One World (WOW) Cafe, an anarchistic theater cooperative in the East Village. With masters from New York University (Dramatic Writing) and the City College of New York (Directing), C.O. was nominated for a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship and attended the Berlinale Talent Campus 2005 and the Berlin Today Award Summer Campus 2005. Her short stories and dramatic works have been published in several anthologies and literary reviews. She writes, shoots and works a day job in New York City. Claire can be found on the web at http://www.myprivateconey.com/ From Part 2 of the Sad Air trilogy, "Wire Monkey" is about the adventures of Bets, a 17-year-old girl from the tough Lower East Side who gets kicked out of her house by her disintergrating mother, The Cellist. Navigating the streets of NY's 1970's East Village, Bets crashes on the couch at the cold-water flat of her orgasm-faking childhood friend, Gertie and takes a new job that doesn't just include cleaning people's private toilets. But setting up a life on borrowed money and other people's clothes has its pitfalls....

Stephanie Rosenbaum, "Angelina" STEPHANIE ROSENBAUM grew up in New Jersey. After graduating Princeton in 1990 with a BA in English Literature and a certificate from the Program in Theater and Dance, she moved to San Francisco, where she was active in the spoken-word and queer art scenes. Her writings have been collected in numerous anthologies, including Beyond Definition: New Lesbian and Gay Writing from San Francisco; Virgin Territories; Tangled Sheets; Pillow Talk; the Underground Guide to San Francisco; and Electric: Best Lesbian Erotic Fiction. She has also written two non-fiction books, a natural history of honey (Honey: From Flower to Table) and a hip wedding planner (The Anti-Bride Guide). She has explored food and sex, her favorite topics, in numerous ways, from posing for the cover of On Our Backs to working as a restaurant reviewer and food writer for numerous print and online publications. When not working on fiction, she edits guidebooks for Time Out New York and writes a monthly cooking column. After 12 years in San Francisco, a year in Europe, and various stints in Williamsburg and the West Village, she now lives in Brooklyn. Stephanie is a member of FFR/Princeton BTGALA and can be found on the web at http://members.aol.com/dixieday/ Stephanie will be reading another excerpt from the riveting "Angelina," a noir mystery novel in progress that was one of the highlights from a previous reading!

Kevin Scott, "The Boys in the Brownstone" KEVIN SCOTT is a screenwriter ("Key Exchange"), playwright ("Hide Your Love Away"), and critic whose arts reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Genre Magazine and other publications. "The Boys in the Brownstone" is his first novel. He teaches screenwriting at New York University. He taught film history as a Visiting Lecturer at Princeton and for many years was Literary Manager of the New Group Theater in New York City. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton. Kevin is a member of FFR/Princeton BTGALA and can be found on the web at http://boysinthebrownstone.com/ A bawdy Cheers-like bar for non-Chelsea queers--that's the Brownstone, a quirky gentleman's bar on the affluent Upper East Side of New York, where the dysfunctional characters of this serio-comic debut novel mingle and mix. A closeted pastor is writing checks on his dying monsignor's account to finance his boyfriend's landscaping business. A bored museum curator, with a history of suicidal boyfriends, courts a depressed pianist. A heartthrob soap star is aghast that his progressive (if sanctimonious) father is making a spectacle of his son's gay wedding. A married Brazilian investment banker is hunting for a man who blends Bloomingdale's style with Carnivale abandon. Scott deftly braids together their stories--of love gone sadly wrong, of lives gone humorously astray, and of some happy endings--all the while juggling the romantic woes of his "boys" with witty panache. The "Boys in the Brownstone" is both a quaint comedy of manners (think Edith Wharton) and a brisk, contemporary commentary on gay life (think Andrew Holleran): quite a combo!

We thank Bluestockings for supporting this event and making the authors' books available for sale! Bluestockings is a radical bookstore, fair-trade cafe, and activist center in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. They carry over 3000 titles covering topics such as queer theory, global capitalism, feminist studies, political theory, democracy studies, black liberation, and children's books. They also carry magazines, zines, t-shirts, buttons, and offer a community events board. Visit their website at http://www.bluestockings.com/

People is a beautiful bar that brings the SoHo feel to the lower East Side (directions follow). It's a marvelous place to have a drink and mix and mingle. For more information, visit their website at http://www.peoplelounge.com/

We especially welcome LGBT alumni over the age of 21 from the Ivy League and Seven Sisters schools, as well as our friends from Stanford, NYU, UVA, Duke, Williams, and Georgetown University. Feel free to bring your friends, boyfriends and girlfriends!

Directions
It's easy to get to People! It's just a block and a half below the intersection of First Avenue and Houston.
Subway From uptown or midtown, take the F or V train to the 2nd Avenue stop. Exit out the right hand stairs on the first Avenue end of the station. South of Houston, First Avenue becomes Allen Street. People is just a short block and a half south of Houston on the west side of Allen, between Stanton and Rivington.
From down town, take the J/M/Z up town. Get off at Essex. Walk west three short blocks to Allen, then north a block and a half.
Bus From uptown or midtown, take the M15 bus south on 2nd Avenue. The bus will turn on Houston and continue south on Allen Street. Get off at Houston and Allen and walk south a short block and a half. From subway stations on the west side, take the M21 bus east on Houston. Get off at 1st Avenue/Allen Street.

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