Our one regret in scheduling the GalleyCat BEA party last Thursday night is that I had to miss Gawker editor Emily Gould‘s literary debut at the Columbus Circle Borders, when she took a break from systematically innuendo-izing her way through Everyone Who’s Anyone in Adult Trade Publishing* to read an excerpt from her new novel for teens, Hex Education. (I suggested months ago we could throw her and co-author Zareen Jaffery a pub party, but I suspect she was afraid we’d make her wear one of those boas.) I knew Jenny Pollack (foreground) was reading at the same event, though, so I emailed her and asked if she had any pictures, and she didn’t, but later that weekend she did send some pictures from the event that everyone else but Gould did two nights later at the Park Slope Barnes & Noble. (That’s Maureen Johnson in the back, and Bennett Madison was just off to the side.) It’s very cool how YA authors stick together like this, nurturing a readership that dabbles widely and (ideally) never stops.
But maybe we’ll be able to make it to the New York Public Library next Tuesday, when Gould’s colleague Doree Shafrir (right) will be one of three literary magazine editors—she does The Crier in her spare time—introducing the audience to their contributors for the third and final session in this season of “Periodically Speaking,” which also features Junot Diaz of Boston Review and Nick Flynn of Gulf Coast. As you can see at right, I’ve been to Crier events before, because I believe it’s a good magazine that deserves your attention. Speaking of good magazines that deserve your attention, before this event, you’ll want to check out the Lit Mag Marathon Weekend at the NYPL and Housing Works this weekend, where you’ll be able to hear several editors reading favorite pieces from recent issues, which you can buy for just $2 a copy.
*Who’d have thunk I’d ever have anything in common with Leigh Haber and Jonathan Galassi? But there we are!