An Evening with VQR
Wednesday, April 30 | 7:00 PM A Public Space, 323 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Join VQR and A Public Space for a literary reading with Julia Cooke, Leslie Jamison, and Amy Woolard.
Julia Cooke
wrote her first book, The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba, and it is just out from Seal Press. In addition to her features in VQR, Cooke is a frequent contributor to Guernica and Condé Nast Traveller (UK) and has written for the Village Voice, the Atlantic, Monocle, and the Wall Street Journal.
Leslie Jamison
wrote the New York Times bestseller The Empathy Exams which includes her much-heralded essays in A Public Space, VQR, Harper’s, the Believer, and other magazines, and it won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. Jamison is also the author of the novel The Gin Closet (2010).
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