After sifting through a tall stack of applications, we’ve chosen the authors to be featured in our inaugural mediabistro.com Book Club. The night will feature two nonfiction books and two novels, handpicked to include a wide range of subjects, genres, and publishing experience–giving book club participants a night of practical and entertaining conversation.
We will feature Karen Stabiner‘s novel, Getting In; Amy Whitaker‘s art book, Museum Legs: Fatigue and Hope in the Face of Art; David Farley‘s travel book, An Irreverent Curiosity; and Gar Anthony Haywood‘s thriller, Cemetery Road.
In an ongoing effort to build community among readers, writers, and publishing types, we are introducing the mediabistro.com book club. At these parties, authors can show off their books and mediabistro.com readers can learn from publishing veterans. Four writers will mingle with mediabistro.com readers and read a two minute selection from their work.
The first event will be held in New York City on March 9 at 6:30 p.m. EST–so sign up now. If you want to be included in the May 12 edition of the book club, follow this link to register. More information about the individual books follows after the jump.
Karen Stabiner, author of Getting In: “With a survivor’s wit and a journalist’s eye, she tells the story of five Los Angeles high school seniors and their parents as they navigate the obstacle course that is college admissions.”
Amy Whitaker, author of Museum Legs: Fatigue and Hope in the Face of Art: “Why do people get bored and tired in art museums and why does that matter? As Whitaker writes in this humorous and incisive collection of essays, museums matter for reasons that have less to do with art as we know it and more to do with business, politics, and the age-old question of how to live.”
David Farley, author of An Irreverent Curiosity: “Blending history, travel, and perhaps the oddest story in Christian lore, An Irreverent Curiosity is a weird and wonderful tale of conspiracy and misadventure.”
Gar Anthony Haywood, author of Cemetery Road: “Reverberations from a crime committed in their youth follow three grown men with the tenacity and inevitability of Greek tragedy in Haywood’s beautifully crafted novel of unintended consequences.”