When: Friday, September 24, 2010
Where: Housing Works, Bookstore Cafe, 126 Crosby St., New York, NY
What Time: 7 p.m.
Event Information: Visit housingworks.org for more info.

A reading and discussion to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Algonquin’s critically acclaimed anthology New Stories from the South: 2010. Program includes series editor, celebrated author and PEN member Amy Hempel, Algonquin in-house editor Kathy Pories, and recent Young Lions award-winner author Wells Tower.

Amy Hempel is a short story writer, journalist, and professor at Brooklyn College. Her first story, "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried," is one of the most extensively anthologized of the last quarter century. She has received the Hobson Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other distinctions. In 2007, she won the Ambassador Book Award for The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, which The New York Times also named one of the Ten Best Books of the year. In 2009, she received the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction.