Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Reading Recap - Battle of the Books

Did you get a chance to come out to our Battle of the Books? If you did, I hope you had as much fun as I did! And if you didn't, now's your chance to listen to our final two readings! You can have a listen on Late Night Conversation now.

And many thanks to Julia Fierro, for her incredible hosting prowess, and to our incredible reader/author teams, who made the evening so wonderful:
  • Kelli Dunham, reading from Hum by Jamaal May
  • Clifford Thompson, reading from Know the Night by Maria Mutch
  • Robin Black, reading from The Wax Bullet War by Sean Davis
  • Chelsea Drake, reading from The Anatomy of Dreams by Chloe Benjamin
  • Kate Racculia, reading from Josh Booton’s The Union of Geometry & Ash
  • Mira Jacob, reading from Adrianne Harun’s A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain
  • Mike Scalise, reading from Justin St. Germain’s Son of a Gun: a memoir
  • Scott Cheshire, reading from Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You
You can hear Mike and Scott's final readings on our podcast, so I hope you'll have a listen (and enter to win a copy of Celeste's book!)

Me, explaining a bit about Late Night Library. (Photo credit: Roger Arnold)

Mira Jacob reading from A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain (Photo Credit: Tori De Leone)

Kelli Dunham giving a phenomenal reading of Jamaal May’s Hum (Photo Credit: Tori De Leone)

The Final Four with host Julia Fierro! (right to left: Mira Jacob, Scott Cheshire, Julia, Mike Scalise, and Kate Racculia) (Photo Credit: Tori De Leone)

Scott Cheshire, accepting the championship belt on behalf of Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You (Photo credit: Tori De Leone)

Celeste Ng wearing her championship belt!