Night Glare Author Reading, featuring Bethany Ball and Jill Bialosky

Join us for a reading by acclaimed authors Jill Bialosky and Bethany Ball, hosted by the Carson McCullers House in Nyack, New York. The focus of the evening’s readings and conversation will be maternal mental health – a key theme in both writers’ works. A discussion along with Q&A from the livestream audience will follow their readings of new literary fiction.

Free and open to the public. An open mic will precede the reading, with sign-ups starting at 6:30pm. Writers are invited to share a 3-minute-or-less reading of poetry or prose.

Light refreshments provided. The featured authors' books will be available for sale.

About the writers:

Bethany Ball is the author of the acclaimed novels What to Do About the Solomons and The Pessimists, both published by Grove Atlantic.
Born and raised in Detroit, Bethany has lived in New York for over 20 years. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence and was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and the Jewish Book Council debut fiction prize. Her work has been featured and reviewed in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Detroit Free Press, Jewish Book Council, Electric Literature, Zyzzyva and has work forthcoming from Sewanee Press, Northwest Review, and Lilith Magazine. She is currently at work a new novel set in the Motor City.

Jill Bialosky's newest volume of poetry Asylum: A Personal, Historical, Natural Inquiry in 103 Lyric Sections, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. She is the author of five acclaimed collections of poetry, three critically acclaimed novels, including The Prize and most recently, The Deceptions and a two memoirs, Poetry Will Save Your Life and New York Times bestselling memoir History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, O Magazine, The Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, Paris Review and Best American Poetry among others. She co-edited with Helen Schulman the anthology, Wanting a Child. She is an Executive Editor and Vice President at W. W. Norton & Company. In 2014 she was honored by the Poetry Society of America for her distinguished contribution to poetry.