St. Mark's Bookshop

St. Mark's Bookshop presents an evening celebrating Spuyten Duyvil Press with Karen Lillis & Joanna SitMonday, June 25th at 7PMThe reading will take place at:St. Marks Bookshop31 Third Avenue (at 9th Street)New York, NY 10003 Subway: 6 to Astor Place, N/R to 8th Street, L to 14th St/3rd AvenueThis is a free eventFor more information please visit the shop, call (212) 260-7853 or email stmarksbooks@gmail.com   Watch The Doors As They Close by Karen LillisKaren Lillis was born in Washington, D.C., during the Vietnam War and has lived in Virginia, Texas, New York, Paris, and Pittsburgh. Her books of fiction include WATCH THE DOORS AS THEY CLOSE (Spuyten Duyvil, 2012), THE SECOND ELIZABETH (Six Gallery Press, 2009), Magenta's Adventures Underground (Words Like Kudzu Press, 2004), and i, scorpion: foul belly-crawler of the desert (Words Like Kudzu Press, 2000). She is currently finishing her first book of nonfiction, Bagging the Beats at Midnight: Confessions of a New York Bookstore Clerk.My Last Century by Joanna SitPoetry. Asian American Studies. "Joanna Sit recognizes the poem as a journey, as a lived experience, as meditation. MY LAST CENTURY is a journey through the wreckage of the world we truly live in, where 'an alien space ship wrecked beyond return' might be serenaded by the 50 greatest Taiwanese love songs; a journey which yields, ultimately, an unexpected and hard-earned tenderness, with a voice that says, 'I will lie down with heroes / with bums, with outcasts / and I will say, how lovely / this city of mine.'"—Brian Turner