Jane Ciabattari
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EventsJune 8, 2013. "Writers with Drinks" reading at the Make Out Room, San Francisco, hosted by Charlie Jane Anders. April 4, 2013, Litcamp, 3:30 literary panel. October 6, 2012. Flash fiction reading, Litquake, San Francisco, with Meg Pokrass, Molly Giles, Thaisa Frank, Luis Jaramillo, Pamela Painter. May 15, McNally Jackson Books, New York, NY. Reading/discussion with Kaylie Jones, editor of LONG ISLAND NOIR, with other contributors. May 8, 2012. Rogers Memorial Library, Southampton, NY. Brownbag lunch and talk with other contributors to LONG ISLAND NOIR, edited by Kaylie Jones. May 5, 2012, Canio's Books, Sag Harbor, NY. Reading with Kaylie Jones, Sheila Kohler and other contributors to LONG ISLAND NOIR, edited by Kaylie Jones (Akashic Books). April 2, 2012. Introducing novelist Kathryn Harrison, reading from her new novel "Enchantments," at 92nd Street Y, New York, NY. March 24, 25, 2012, Tennessee Williams Festival, New Orleans, moderating panels on success in publishing (with first novelist Jessica Maria Tuccelli, her agent Lisa Bankoff of ICM, Radclyffe and Michele Karlsberg) and comic novels (with Joshua Clark, Amy Dickinson, Jewelle Gomez, and Ted O'Brien). March 2, 2012. AWP conference in Chicago. Organized/hosting reading by National Book Critics Circle prose awardees: Bonnie Jo Campbell, Jennifer Egan (Pulitzer winner as well), Jane Smiley (Pulitzer), Darin Strauss, Isabel Wilkerson (Pulitzer). October 18, 2011. "What's Your Favorite Comic Novel?" Organized/moderating panel at The Center for Fiction, with novelist Beth Gutcheon, Parul Sehgal, NBCC Balakian award winner/PW editor, and Rob Spillman, editor of Tin House. September 24, 2011. Organized/moderated a reading/conversation with National Book Critics Circle awards honorees David Hajdu, Darin Strauss, Lynne Tillman, The New School, New York City. August 13, 2011. Flash fiction reading at Copperfield Books in Petaluma, CA, with Molly Giles, Meg Pokrass, Frances Lefkowitz. August 10, 2011. Co-hosting National Book Critics Circle party for awardees and Bay Area members with Oscar Villalon at ZYZZYVA. July 10-17 2011. Taught fiction workshop at Taos Writers' Conference, Taos, NM. Fiction reading July 10 with memoirists Emily Rapp and Gregory Martin. May 2011. Book Expo America, NYC. Organized and moderated panel on Book Reviews Online with Jennifer McDonald, The New York Times Book Review; Parul Sehgal, Publishers Weekly, Lucas Wittmann, The Daily Beast/Newsweek, Jacob Chotiner, The New Republic’s online publication The Book. April 23-May 2,2011. PEN World Voices Festival, New York City. Moderated opening panel, "The Public Intellectual," with Herve Le Tellier (France), Peter Godwin (Zimbabwe), Manuel de Lope (Spain), Linda Polman (Holland). Organized team of six stand-up book critics--Laura Miller of Salon, Lev Grossman of TIME, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Eric Banks, and Roxana Robinson; critics presented a list of five book recommendations at the beginning of each of more than 80 events. Served as "Stand-up Critic" for 15 events, including opening night "Written on Water" reading with Wallace Shawn, Deborah Eisenberg, Malcolm Gladstone, et al, and The Moth, sold-out storytelling evening emceed by Salman Rushdie, with Jonathan Franzen. Also moderated NBCC-cosponsored panel, "The Future of Literary Criticism" with Morris Dickstein, Cynthia Ozick, Herve Le Tellier (France), and Carsten Jensen (Denmark). March 25, 2011. Tennessee Williams Festival, New Orleans. Presented Master class on book criticism, moderated a panel on the literature of dysfunctional families with Dorothy Allison, Valerie Martin, Susan Straight, and Rosalyn Story. March 10, 2011. Hosted National Book Critics Circle annual meeting and NBCC Awards ceremony, The New School, New York, NY, with award winners and finalists. Winners: Jennifer Egan, Fiction; Darin Strauss, Autobiography; Isabel Wilkerson, nonfiction; Sarah Bakewell, Biography; C.D. Wright, Poetry; Clare Cavanagh, Criticism. Lifetime Achievement: Dalkey Archive Press, introduced by William Gass. March 9, 2011. Hosted National Book Critics Circle Awards finalists reading at The New School, New York, NY. February 22, 2011. Organized/introduced Philip Roth at National Book Critics Circle and The Center for Fiction event in NYC: A Celebration of Philip Roth, with Claudia Roth Pierpont, Nathan Englander, Scott Raab. February 4, 2011, 1:30-2:45 pm, Host, National Book Critics Circle fiction reading at AWP, Marriott Ballroom, Marriott Hotel, with Chimamanda Adichie, Edward P. Jones, Jayne Anne Phillips, Elizabeth Strout, Colson Whitehead. January 22, 2011, 6 pm. Host, National Book Critics Circle awards finalists announcement, WNYC-Greene Performance Space, New York, NY, with Joan Acocella, Jason Epstein, Zadie Smith, Annette Gordon Reed, Honor Moore, Carolyn Forche, Blake Bailey and Stephen Burt. January 19, 2011. Moderated panel on Book Reviews Revamped, with editors from the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Book Review, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, at the Center for Fiction, New York, NY. November 3, 2010. Writers/Critics Panelist at the Center for Fiction, New York, NY. Panelist with Lev Grossman, Roxana Robinson. Noreen Tomass, moderator. May 27, 2010, Introduced National Book Critics Circle panel on The Next Decade in Book Culture at BEA, 11 am. April 30, 2010, moderated panel of National Book Critics Circle critics and presented literary context on the work of Sherman Alexie at PEN World Voices Festival. April 10, 2010, fiction reading with Dawn Raffel, KGB Bar, New York City. March 26, 2010, "Writers Read" at Sag Harbor Library, Sag Harbor, NY. March 12, 2010. Host, National Book Critics Circle awards ceremony, The New School, New York City. Winners: Hilary Mantel, Fiction; Rae Armantrout, Poetry; Diana Athill, Autobiography; Richard Holmes, Nonfiction; Blake Bailey, Biography: Eula Biss, Criticism. Lifetime Achievement: Joyce Carol Oates. March 11, 2010. Host, National Book Critics Circle finalists' reading, The New School, New York City. January 23, 2010, Host, National Book Critics Circle finalists' announcement, New York City. December 2, 2010, 7 pm. "National Book Critics Circle and PEN American Center celebrate PEN Beyond Margins Award Winners," moderating panel of award winners at Housing Works, New York City. October 6, 2009. "After Kapuscinski: The Art of Reportage in the 21st Century," a two-day symposium, moderated panel "On the Ground to On the Page," with Joshua Clark, Eliza Griswold, Arif Jamal, Elizabeth Rubin, Pawel Smolenski at NYU, cosponsored by the Polish Cultural Institute in New Yori, the National Book Critics Circle, the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Literary Reportage concentration of the Arthur L. Carter Journalist Institute at NYU. July 2009, Foothill Writers' Conference, Los Altos, California. Taught fiction workshop, reading with Allan Cheuse, Michelle Richmond. February 13, 2009, 3 pm. Host, National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award Winners/ Finalists reading at the Chicago AWP conference, featuring Marilynne Robinson, author of "Home" (NBCC Fiction Award winner for "Gilead"), Aleksandar Hemon, author of "The Lazarus Project" (and NBCC Fiction Award finalist for "The Nowhere Man") and Bharati Mukherjee, author of "The Tree Bride" (and NBCC Fiction Award winner for "The Middleman and Other Stories"). At the Hilton Chicago, 720 South Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL. March, 2009. Host, National Book Critics Circle Award finalists reading at The New School and National Book Critics Circle awards at The New School. Winners: Roberto Bolaño, Fiction; August Kleinzahler and Juan Felipe Herrera, Poetry; Ariel Sabar, Autobiography; Patrick French, Biography, Dexter Filkins, Nonfiction, Seth Lerer, Criticism. Lifetime Achievement: PEN American Center. October 15, 2008.National Book Critics Circle/PEN panel, "Beyond Margins: The Critic's Role," Housing Works, NYC, 7 pm. Moderating panel with Pulitzer award winning critic Margo Jefferson, Ibrahim Ahmad, Akashic Books, editor of 2008 Beyond Margins award winners Chris Abani and Amari Baraka; Jabari Assim, editor, Crisis magazine, Scholar in Residence, U. of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana; Rigoberto Gonzalez, NBCC Board member, award winning poet, memoirist, novelist, El Paso Times critic; Joseph Marshall III, novelist, Beyond Margins award winner 2008. September 12, 2008. Organized and moderated National Book Critics Circle event at The New School, "The Flourishing Long-Form Book Review," moderating panel with panelists Eric Banks, Marcela Valdes, and editors from Harper's (Jennifer Szalai), The Nation (John Palattella), and Virginia Quarterly Review (Ted Genoways). July 19-26, 2008. Fiction writer in residence, The Writers' Center at the Chautauqua.Institution. Fiction reading July 20. Lecture,"Why Book Reviews Matter," July 25. March 29, 2008. Fiction reading with novelist John Reed, KGB Bar. January 16, 2008. “New Voices, Unrecognized Voices,” organized/moderated panel at National Book Critics Circle awards finalists events weekend in San Francisco, with agent Sandra Dijkstra, critic David Kipen, bookseller/blogger Suzanne Kleid, publisher Eli Horowitz, authors Michelle Richmond and Greg Sarris. July 16-23, 2005. Fiction writer in residence, The Writers Center at the Chautauqua Institution. June 20-25, 2005. Faculty, Borderlands Writers Conference, Tenants Harbor, Maine. September 8-November 20, 2004, Distinguished Writer in Residence and Visiting Professor of English, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, teaching creative writing workshops, organizing fiction reading/panel. June 13-18, 2004, Borderlands Writers' Conference, Tenants Harbor, ME. Teaching fiction workshops, readings, lectures. October 22-25, in residence at Knox College, Galesburg, ILL. Fiction reading/lecture on "Telling Truth through Fiction," guest lecturer in journalism classes and fiction reading, “Arabella Leaves.” June 28-July 5, 2003, Fiction Reading/Lecture/ Fiction Workshop, The Writers' Center at Chautauqua, Chautauqua Institution. (Workshop Topic: “Making Your Short Story Ring True: How Fact Enriches Fiction.”) June 9-14, 2003. Fiction reading/Fiction Workshop, Borderlands Writers' Conference, Tenants Harbor, Maine. June 7, 2003. Fiction reading/workshop with Mark Ciabattari, Shinnecock Museum Book Fair, Southampton,NY, 1 p.m.-3 p.m. May 3, 2003, 6 p.m. Fiction reading, with Larry Osgood, Canio's Books,290 Main Street, Sag Harbor, NY. November 16, 2002,3 p.m. Fiction reading, John Germain Library, Sag Harbor, NY September 26, 2002. “Cambridge Conversations,” Reading/discussion on "Telling Truth Through Fiction" hosted by Ambassador Swanee Hunt, director of Women and Public Policy Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Mass. September 24, 2002, 6 p.m. Fiction reading with Marnie Mueller, Kips Bay Library, New York, NY. August 8, 2002. Fiction reading with Jervey Tervalon, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Olympic Valley, CA. plus panels on “Literary Magazines,” (with Alan Cheuse and Andrew Tonkovich) and “The Short Story” (with Michael Chabon, Janet Fitch, Susan Segal). August 1, 2002. Fiction reading with Adrianne Marcus, Oliver’s Books, San Anselmo, CA July 31, 2002. Fiction reading, Readers’ Books, Sonoma, CA June 8, 2002. Book signing, Maine Coast Books, Damariscotta, ME June 7, 2002. Fiction reading/lecture, Borderlands Writers’ Conference, Tenants’ Harbor, ME. May 18, 2002. Fiction reading with Marnie Mueller, Paradise Books. Sag Harbor, NY May 15, 2002. Fiction reading with Marnie Mueller, Bluestockings Bookstore, New York, NY May 10, 2002, Rogers Memorial Library, Southampton, NY. “Author's Brown Bag Lunch.” May 10, 2002. Elaine Benson "Meet the Writers" Book Fair, Bridgehampton, NY May 1, 2002.Fiction reading, Southampton College “Writers Talk” series April 13, 2002. Fiction reading,Canio’s Books, Sag Harbor, NY April 1, 2002. Fiction reading, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. March 8, 2002. New Orleans, Associate Writing Programs panel, “The X Chromosome Advantage” March 1, 2012. AWP conference in Chicago. Organized/hosting National Book Critics Circle prose awardee reading: Bonnie Jo Campbell, Jennifer Egan, Jane Smiley, Darin Strauss, Isabel Wilkerson. October 18, 2011. "What's Your Favorite Comic Novel?" Organized/moderating panel at The Center for Fiction, with novelist Beth Gutcheon, Parul Sehgal, NBCC Balakian award winner from PW, and Rob Spilman, editor of Tin House. September 24, 2011. Organized/moderating a reading/conversation with National Book Critics Circle awards honorees David Hajdu, Darin Strauss, Lynne Tillman, The New School, New York City. August 13, 2011. Flash fiction reading at Copperfield Books in Petaluma, CA, with Molly Giles, Meg Pokrass, Frances Lefkowitz. August 10, 2011. Cohosting National Book Critics Circle gathering with Oscar Villalon at ZYZZYVA. July 10-17 2011. Teaching fiction workshop at Taos Writers' Conference, Taos, NM. Fiction reading July 10 with memoirists Emily Rapp and Gregory Martin. May 2011. Book Expo America, NYC. Organized and moderated panel on Book Reviews Online with Jennifer McDonald, The New York Times Book Review; Parul Sehgal, Publishers Weekly, Lucas Wittmann, The Daily Beast/Newsweek. April 23-May 2,2011. PEN World Voices Festival, New York City. Moderated opening panel, "The Public Intellectual," with Herve Le Tellier (France), Peter TK (South Africa), Organized team of six stand-up book critics--Laura Miller of Salon, Lev Grossman of TIME, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Eric Banks, and Roxana Robinson; critics presented a list of five book recommendations at the beginning of each of more than 80 events. Served as "Stand-up Critic" for 15 events, including The Moth, a storytelling evening emceed by Salman Rushdie, with Jonathan Franzen; opening night "Written on Water" reading with Wallace Shawn, Deborah Eisenberg, Malcolm Gladstone, et al. Moderated panel, "The Future of Literary Criticism" with Morris Dickstein, Cynthia Ozick, Herve Le Tellier (France), Carsten Jensen (Denmark). March 10, 2011. Hosted National Book Critics Circle annual meeting and NBCC Awards ceremony, The New School, New York, NY, with award winners and finalists. (Winners: Jennifer Egan in Fiction; Darin Strauss, Autobiography; Isabel Wilkerson, nonfiction; Sarah Bakewell, Biography; C.D. Wright, Poetry, and Clare Cavanagh, Criticism.) March 9, 2011. Hosted National Book Critics Circle Awards finalists reading at The New School, New York, NY. March 8, 2011. National Book Critics Circle awards finalists at the Center for Fiction, New York, NY. February 22, 2011. Introduced Philip Roth at National Book Critics Circle and The Center for Fiction event in NYC: A Celebration of Philip Roth, with Claudia Roth Pierpont, Nathan Englander, Scott Raab, February 4, 2011, 1:30-2:45 pm, National Book Critics Circle fiction reading at AWP conference in Washington, D.C., Marriott Ballroom, Marriott Hotel, with Chimamanda Adichie, Edward P. Jones, Jayne Anne Phillips, Elizabeth Strout, Colson Whitehead. January 22, 2011, 6 pm. National Book Critics Circle awards finalists announcement, WNYC-Greene Performance Space, New York, NY, with Joan Acocella, Jason Epstein, Zadie Smith, Annette Gordon Reed, Honor Moore, Carolyn Forche, Blake Bailey and Stephen Burt. January 19, 2011. Book Reviews Revamped, moderated panel with editors from the Wall Street Journal, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, etc, at the Center for Fiction, New York, NY. November 3, 2010. Writers/Critics Panelist at the Center for Fiction, New York,NY. With Roxana Robinson, moderated by Noreen Tomassi. July 11-18, 2010, teaching fiction workshop at Taos Writers Conference. May 27, 2010, Introducing National Book Critics Circle panel on The Last Decade in Book Culture at BEA, 11 am. April 30, 2010, moderating panel of National Book Critics Circle critics and presenting on Sherman Alexie at PEN World Voices Festival. April 10, 2010, fiction reading with Dawn Raffel, KGB Bar, New York City. March 26, 2010, "Writers Read" at Sag Harbor Library, Sag Harbor, NY. March 12, 2010. National Book Critics Circle awards ceremony, The New School, New York City. March 11, 2010. National Book Critics Circle finalists' reading, The New School, New York City. January 23, 2010, National Book Critics Circle finalists' announcement, New York City. December 2, 2010, 7 pm. "National Book Critics Circle and PEN American Center celebrate PEN Beyond Margins Award Winners," moderating panel of award winners at Housing Works, New York City. October 6, 2009. "After Kapuscinski: The Art of Reportage in the 21st Century," a two-day symposium, moderating panel "On the Ground to On the Page," with Joshua Clark, Eliza Griswold, Arif Jamal, Elizabeth Rubin, Pawel Smolenski at NYU, cosponbsored by the Polish Cultural Institute in New Yori, the National Book Critics Circle, the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Literary Reportage concentration of the Arthur L. Carter Journalist Institute at NYU. July 2009, Foothill Writers' Conference, Los Altos, California. Reading with Allan Cheuse, teaching writing workshops "How to Begin." February 13, 2009, 3 pm. National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award Winners/ Finalists reading at the Chicago AWP conference, featuring Marilynne Robinson, author of "Home" (NBCC Fiction Award winner for "Gilead"), Aleksandar Hemon, author of "The Lazarus Project" (and NBCC Fiction Award finalist for "The Nowhere Man") and Bharati Mukherjee, author of "The Tree Bride" (and NBCC Fiction Award winner for "The Middleman and Other Stories"). At the Hilton Chicago, 720 South Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL. October 15, 2008.National Book Critics Circle/PEN panel, "Beyond Margin: The Critic's Role," Housing Works, NYC, 7 pm. Moderating panel with Pulitzer award winning critic Margo Jefferson, Ibrahim Ahmad, Akashic Books, editor of 2008 Beyond Margins award winners Chris Abani and Amari Baraka; Jabari Assim, editor, Crisis magazine, Scholar in Residence, U. of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana; Rigoberto Gonzalez, NBCC Board member, award winning poet, memoirist, novelist, El Paso Times critic; Joseph Marshall III, novelist, Beyond Margins award winner 2008. September 12, 2008.National Book Critics Circle at The New School, Theresa Lang Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor, 6:30 pm: "The Flourishing Long-Form Book Review," moderating panel with panelists Eric Banks, Marcela Valdes, and editors from Harper's (Jennifer Szalai), The Nation (John Palattella), and Virginia Quarterly Review (Ted Genoways). July 19-26, 2008. Fiction writer in residence, The Writers' Center at the Chautauqua.Institution. Fiction reading July 20. Lecture "Why Book Reviews Matter," July 25. March 29, 2008. Fiction reading with novelist John Reed, KGB Bar. June 19-23, 2006. Faculty, Borderlands Writers Conference, Tenants Harbor, Maine. July 16-23, 2005. Fiction writer in residence, The Writers Center at the Chautauqua Institution. June 20-25, 2005. Faculty, Borderlands Writers Conference, Tenants Harbor, Maine. September 8-November 20, 2004, Distinguished Writer in Residence, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, teaching creative writing workshops. June 13-18, 2004, Borderlands Writers' Conference, Tenants Harbor, ME. Teaching fiction workshops, readings, lectures. (For information, see http://www.borderlandsconference.com) October 22-25, in residence at Knox College, Galesburg, ILL. Fiction reading/lecture on "Telling Truth through Fiction," guest lecturer in journalism classes. June 28-July 5, 2003, Reading/Lecture/ Fiction Workshop, The Writers' Center at Chautauqua, Chautauqua Institution (for information write PO Box 408, Chautauqua, NY 14722). Workshop Topic: “Making Your Short Story Ring True: How Fact Enriches Fiction” This workshop will focus on using daily newspapers, historic sources and the Internet to develop and research stories, and even broaden them beyond personal experience. We will look at student work—one completed story per participant—as well as in-class exercises aimed at showing the rewards of research in creating authentic characters, setting and dialogue. We’ll also learn from established writers like Richard Ford, Alice Munro and Tim O’Brien. June 9-14, 2003. Reading/ Fiction Workshop, Borderlands Writers' Conference, Tenants Harbor, Maine. (For information, http://www.borderlandsconference.com) June 7, 2003. Reading/workshop with Mark Ciabattari, Shinnecock Museum Book Fair, Southampton,NY, 1 p.m.-3 p.m. May 3, 2003, 6 p.m. Reading,with Larry Osgood, Canio's Books,290 Main Street, Sag Harbor, NY (631-725-4926 or caniosbooks@hamptons.com). November 16, 2002,3 p.m. Reading, John Germain Library, Sag Harbor, NY September 26, 2002. “Cambridge Conversations,” Reading/discussion on "Telling Truth Through Fiction" hosted by Ambassador Swanee Hunt, director of Women and Public Policy Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Mass. September 24, 2002,6 p.m. Third Avenue between 31st and 32nd Streets. Reading with Marnie Mueller, Kips Bay Library, New York, NY. August 8, 2002. Reading with Jervey Tervalon, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Olympic Valley, CA. (Plus fiction workshops, panels on “Literary Magazines,” (with Alan Cheuse and Andrew Tonkovich) and “The Short Story” (with Michael Chabon, Janet Fitch, Susan Segal). August 1, 2002. Reading with Adrianne Marcus, Oliver’s Books, San Anselmo, CA July 31, 2002. Reading, Readers’ Books, Sonoma, CA June 8, 2002. Book signing,Maine Coast Books, Damariscotta, ME June 7, 2002. Reading/lecture, Borderlands Writers’ Conference, Tenants’ Harbor, ME. May 18, 2002. Reading with Marnie Mueller, Paradise Books. Sag Harbor, NY May 15, 2002. Reading with Marnie Mueller, Bluestockings Bookstore, New York, NY May 10, 2002, Rogers Memorial Library, Southampton, NY. “Author's Brown Bag Lunch.” May 10, 2002. Elaine Benson "Meet the Writers" Book Fair, Bridgehampton, NY May 1, 2002.Reading, Southampton College “Writers Talk” series April 13, 2002. Reading,Canio’s Books, Sag Harbor, NY April 1, 2002. Reading, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles March 8, 2002. New Orleans, Associate Writing Programs panel, “The X Chromosome Advantage” |
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