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Love & Heartbreak: An Evening of Alt-Valentine's Readings

Skip the candy and flowers and discover what love is really about when a cast of local authors reads fiction about finding love, feeling love, losing love and keeping love. Featuring:

  • Lisa Phillips, author of Unrequited: The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Romantic Obsession

  • Jana Martin, fiction writer, essayist (Glimmer Train, NYT, Marie Claire), and author of several books, most recently Russian Lover, a short story collection

  • Nina Shengold, author of novel Clearcut, which won Nerve.com’s Henry Miller Award for Best Literary Sex Scene, and Writers Guild Award recipient for her teleplay Labor of Love.

  • Beverly Donofrio, author of Riding in Cars with Boys, Looking for Mary, and Astonished

  • Robert Burke Warren, local musician, fiction writer, essayist, and author of Perfectly Broken

This event is free with food or drink purchase. Copies of the readers’ books will also be available for purchase.